The big country at the moment, the protagonist is the United States and China, which has nothing to do with Britain.How to position the UK — is it against China with the United States, or is it like the European Union?Is freedom values still the first main force of British positioning?Faced with different countries, the Labor Party's new government gives different answers.
Last weekend, the British Foreign Minister Rimi visited China, trying to break the efforts of British -China relations in the Conservative Party, and have different responses in Britain and China.This trip was quite controversial in the UK. After the itinerary, the British media interviewed this very few reports; the Chinese media restrained the expression of "the momentum of Chinese -British relations to recover the momentum", only highlighting the "Lami said that the British government is committed to coherent, consolidated, andRespect each other and meet the long -term interests of both parties, strengthen dialogue cooperation with China, and effectively control differences. "
In the 14 years of the conservative party's administration, British -China relations have experienced ups and downs, from gold diplomatic relations to the Labor Party to take over the bottom of the governance.China's attitude towards Britain is as always, as if waiting for a girlfriend to return to the arms.This is very clever, because the United States can be united, because the United States is the opposite of China.
From 2015 to early 2020, British -Chinese relations have been under the framework of Britain -China Golden Relations.Many Chinese in the United Kingdom called themselves "bridge connecting British -China relations", because at that time, the middle line of friendly bilateral governments was very popular.
But because of the decline in US -China relations, even British -China relations have also followed.Since World War II, British diplomacy has been following the United States.The decline in US -China relations has a great relationship with China ’s profitability from economic globalization. It has become the second largest economy in a short time, and it has a great relationship between the world’ s leadership in the United States.
In March 2020, in the chaos in the west into the chaos of the crown disease epidemic, Wuhan sealed the city overnight to quickly reduce the ability of virus transmission.Publicly show the intention of challenging the status of the world's world overlord.The most obvious is the Alaska talks between the United States and the United States in March 2021. The Chinese representative Yang Jiechi broke the routine and the speech lasted for 16 minutes. It was not until the speech was finished and translated to the United States.The most widely spread sentence is: "The United States is not qualified to talk to China high, and the Chinese do not eat this set."
In the first half of 2020, at the tough request of US President Trump, then British Prime Minister Johnson helplessly began to gradually limit the application of Huawei products in the UK.Since then, British -China relations have gradually declined.By July of this year, before the Conservative's Sunak government left Xiangfu, China had been described as a "epoch -making systematic challenge" to Britain and allies. British citizens should consider joining the army because "the world has entered a dangerous state."
Since the new government of the Labor Party joined the 10th Tangning Street in July, the expression of "the world has entered a dangerous state" has been basically forgotten and has not been very clear about the China policy.The review and claiming that in view of the allegations of Chinese hackers and espionage on British territory, the British government will maintain a "sober mind" to China.
When I participated in the Annual Conference of the Labor Party in September, I asked the British Minister of Commerce and Trade Renault: "To what extent the United Kingdom rely on Chinese markets, international students, and products?" His answer left me such an impression: One, Britain will continue to carry out trade with China; second, this move may be politically dissatisfied with the United States, but it can restrain China and Russia to continue, because in the Ukrainian situation, the British government is the most firm allowing Ukraine to use long -range missiles to counterattack Russia in Russia.Objective country.
La Mi visiting China in October proves my observation.In this regard, the official website of the British government reported that "from the field of pragmatic cooperation to controversial issues, the conference is constructive in all aspects of bilateral relations."Compared with the end of 2022, although the current international storm is even more windy and snowy, the risk of upgrading the regional war into the World War is the risk of the world war.Field cooperation (such as global green transformation), competing in the field of competition (human rights in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, etc.). "However, public opinion in the UK believes that Lamin visits China to "sacrifice human rights to improve trade relations with China."
The attitude of Lami's visit to China shows that a new government has just entered world politics and is a test of water on how to deal with China.Lami's visit to China on social platform X is not shaking hands with Wang Yi, but a face -to -face communication between the two countries, and it seems to be deliberately set. The prospect is a large table. The characters are arranged in the background part.The center of the center is concentrated on the two national flags of the desktop.
The Labor Party attaches more importance to human rights than the Conservative Party. Why does it reduce human rights standards in the face of China?When the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained on the official website of Lami's visit to China, it was said that "as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, the United Kingdom and China need to strengthen bilateral cooperation. Lamie clearly stated that as a global participant, the two countries have obligations to find pragmatic methods togetherCome to the complex challenges. "Russia is also a permanent member of the Security Council. How can Britain find a pragmatic method with it?
The big power of the big country now, the protagonist is the United States and China, which has nothing to do with Britain.How to position the UK — is it against China with the United States, or is it like the European Union?Is freedom values still the first main force of British positioning?Faced with different countries, the Labor Party's new government gives different answers.On the Russian issue, the new government is in charge of free value. As soon as it came to power, it continued to conservative party policy. It supported Ukraine. It is still second only to the United States in NATO because Russia is the largest enemy in Europe and means Britain's largest enemy.
On the issue of China, the Labor Party shows the "pragmatic" approach similar to Sunak's two years ago, that is, money and values are important, but money is temporarily more important.Although British and medium values are thousands of miles, China is a direct opponent of the United States, not Britain.Therefore, this time the Minister of Foreign Affairs visited China, although careful, but the eyes of the eyes saw the trend of warming British -China relations.Using both countries is a permanent member of the Security Council to explain, but it is justified.Regardless of the Conservative Government and the current Labor Government, they agree to increase the military expenses to 2.5%of the GDP (GDP), but the opponents in the eyes of the Conservative Party include Russia and China.It seems that there is no China?However, Prime Minister Stammer has publicly stated before Lamin's visit to China that Li Zhiying, a British Hong Kong democratic activity, was released, and was the "priority" of the British government.
The criticism of Chinese human rights records, spies and hackers has become increasingly accumulated in the Conservative era. Whether this power will restrict Rama's pragmatic policy of "trying to keep human rights and trade in China" needs to be observed.
(The author is a bilingual writer who settled in the UK)
