China and Britain have previously interacted with senior officials. In addition, the more friendly Cameron became the British Foreign Minister, and many people thought that the relationship between the two countries began to stop falling.Unexpectedly, a Hong Kong Government's Economic and Trade Office in London turned out to be was arrested by the British government with the National Security Law , making many people the congress.Surprising.
This case will be interrogated again at the end of May, and the specific details will be further explained in the court.However, there are three major doubts in the incident that have attracted much attention from the outside world: one is why the British police make such serious allegations; the other is why Britain arrested people at this time; the third is how the follow -up impact of the incident.
British police sued a total of three men, of which Yuan Songbiao, the executive manager of the Economic and Trade Office of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London.According to the prosecution, Yuan Songbiao instructed the other two defendants to monitor the Hong Kong democrats and demonstrators in the UK and committed the crime of "assisting overseas intelligence work."
In addition, Yuan Songbiao also instructed other defendants to "chase" (recovery) to a Juying woman who was suspected of deceiving a company for HK $ 140 million ($ 24.17 million), including forcibly forcibly forcibly forcibly forcibly on May 1stBroken into the house, he was charged with "overseas intervention."
Among the two charges, the latter only involves "income" (debt collection), and it seems that there is no connection with the so -called political intervention.As for the former, according to the latest national security bill in the UK, foreign government intervention in the basic rights of British citizens is equivalent to criminal criminal criminal criminal criminal criminal criminals.According to the case provided by the British police, Yuan Songbiao, a member of the Hong Kong official in the UK, commissioned two locals to investigate the whereabouts of many people in Britain and Hong Kong, which violated the crime of "assisting foreign intelligence agencies".The Economic and Trade Office is an official institution from the Hong Kong Government's overseas. In the past, the biggest role was linked to local political and business circles for lobbying and promoting economic and trade exchanges.However, in recent years, some Hong Kong people in exile in the UK have held activities against the Hong Kong Government from time to time, and even surrounded the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London.The Hong Kong Institutional camp believes that in this big atmosphere, the Economic and Trade Office hires locals to collect relevant information in order to better respond in the future. This approach is not wrong, and it is incompatible with the British domestic politics.
In fact, the embassies of various countries in foreign countries will collect political and economic information locally.Even in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region in China, the European and American consulates in Hong Kong used to "observe" the front lines of various social movements in different names.Yuan Songbiao entrusted two locals to collect the whereabouts of Hong Kong people, which was a similar purpose to some extent.British officials seemed controversy about his allegations.
This also derives the second problem: Even if the allegations of the British government are true, the official can prompt the Hong Kong government to stop related behaviors, but chose to make things big and hurt the reputation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office.Why did Britain choose to take the shot at this time?It is worth pondering.
According to media reports, the Ministry of National Security of China claimed in early January this year that a case of a British foreign intelligence agency used a third country to engage in the Chinese spy activities.Some people think that the United Kingdom is in color this time to embarrass China.
In addition, the ruling British Conservative Party In the place of elections just past, >, Lost nearly half of the seats.Recently, many poll data have shown that the Conservatives have lagged behind the Labor Party.The British elections are likely to be held in the second half of this year, and the probability of re -governing the Labor Party is high.Therefore, some people believe that the Conservative Government is facing huge pressure on election.As the election is approaching, the official illness is urgent to invest in medical treatment, hoping to attack China to improve its popularity.
In any case, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office was suspected of being involved in the spy case and has risen to a diplomatic storm.The British government summoned the Chinese ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang to protest, while the Chinese Embassy in the UK and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong for condemn the British.Because this is the first time that the staff of the Hong Kong Government's foreign institutions are arrested in the UK. If it is not handled well, a diplomatic storm will be set off at any time.
Hong Kong has a total of 14 economic and trade offices overseas.Since the outbreak of anti -repair storms in 2019, the cutting -edge economic and trade offices have become the target of overseas Hong Kong people's organizers, and European and American politics have also brought to talk.This incident is hidden to see that European and American countries are still behind the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office.In the long run, the Hong Kong Government's special status may be reduced or canceled.
In the United States as an example, the Sino -US game in recent years has been fierce, and Washington has intended to operate the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in the morning.The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Commission has passed the bill at the end of last year to demand the abolition of the privileges of the three economic and trade offices in the Hong Kong government in the United States, and even closed offices.The bill will be submitted to all the House of Representatives for consideration this year, and then it will be decided by the White House.Now Britain has accused the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office of the Economic and Trade Office suspected of violating the National Security Law, and the United States will speed up the bill at any time.
Beijing in 2020 responded to the US Consulate General in Houston in the United States, and closed the US Consulate General in Chengdu as revenge.Once the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office is closed in the United Kingdom and the United States, or Yuan Songbiao is sentenced to prison, Beijing will launch countermeasures for countermeasures. At that time, the relationship between China and the United States and Britain is expected to worsen further.