U K
descends into being 'colony of US'
Could London remain calm if external forces try
to split UK, asks Chinese FM
By Zhang Hui and Xu Yelu
August 12, 2022:
Information Clearing House
-- "Global
Times" UK Foreign Secretary Liz
Truss, due to need of her campaign to become the
next prime minister and the UK's policy of
clinging to the US' apron strings, criticized
China for its countermeasures over US House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit, which only
proved that Britain has lost its credibility as
an independent country, Chinese analysts said.
They stressed that China will firmly respond to
provocations from the US and its allies that
challenge the one-China principle and undermine
China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Truss on Wednesday summoned Chinese Ambassador
to Britain Zheng Zeguang over "Beijing's
aggressive escalation against Taiwan," and
claimed that "increasingly aggressive behavior
and rhetoric from Beijing threaten peace and
stability in the region," according to a
statement on the website of the UK Foreign,
Commonwealth and Development Office.
In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at Thursday's
media briefing that China is strongly
dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to this and
has lodged solemn representations with Britain.
"If Scotland were to collude with external
forces and split itself from the UK, would the
UK remain calm, show restraint, sit by and watch
the situation deteriorate?" Wang asked.
Ambassador Zheng Zeguang has once again lodged
solemn representations to the UK side on the
latter's wrong remarks and deeds on the question
of Taiwan and firmly refuted its wanton
accusations on Wednesday during his meeting with
UK senior officials.
Zheng stressed that whether it's talk about
"helping Taiwan defend itself" or the plan by
parliamentarians to visit Taiwan, they both
constitute serious violations of the one-China
principle and the Communiqué of the Governments
of the People's Republic of China and of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland on an Exchange of Ambassadors issued 50
years ago. They will inevitably lead to severe
consequences for China-UK relations and the UK
side knows this all too well, he said.
Britain is joining the US and is not taking into
account what will happen if the Chinese mainland
does not effectively contain Taiwan
secessionists, Wang Yiwei, director of the
Institute of International Affairs at the Renmin
University of China, told the Global Times on
Thursday.
The White House summoned Chinese Ambassador to
the US Qin Gang last week to condemn China's
military activities around the island of Taiwan.
According to the Chinese embassy, Qin sternly
rejected the unreasonable accusations
of the US side on China's military countermeasures.
"Now it seems that the UK has been colonized by
the US, and it has failed to see how badly it's
being used by the US," Wang said. He urged
Britain to reflect on its current domestic
problems and concentrate on solving them,
instead of creating issues over Ukraine and the
Taiwan Straits.
The UK has learned no lessons from stirring up
the Hong Kong-related issue and now it wants to
stir up the situation across the Taiwan Straits,
which is all because it cannot find its value
after Brexit. Thus it is bumping around to show
its existence, Wang Yiwei said.
As Truss's remarks were made while she was
running to come UK's next prime minister, Wang
Yiwei said her comments were a political show
for the leadership race, after all, being tough
on China is politically correct in the West.
As for future China-UK relations, Liu Zuokui, a
research fellow on European studies at the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the
Global Times on Thursday that since the UK was
strapped tightly to the chariot of the US,
China-UK relations are likely to continue to
fall along with China-US relations.
Aside from the UK, some Lithuanian politicians
have also "jumped high" over the Taiwan
question, and analysts warned that countries
like Lithuania will continue to poke China over
the issue.
But they stressed that China will make a strong
and necessary response to countries like
Lithuania if they play with fire on the
one-China principle, such as sanctions against
more of their politicians or even the severing
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