• Asia.Hong Kong: an Asian tiger caged by Chinese power
  • United Kingdom.Johnson claims that the Hong Kong Security Law is "a clear violation" of China's obligations
  • Hong Kong, China threatens the United Kingdom with retaliation for opening the doors of British citizenship to Hong Kong people

After kicking Huawei out of its 5G network last week, the UK has taken another step in its escalation of tensions with China today by suspending the extradition treaty with Hong Kong . The reason, according to British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, is the imposition from Beijing of a new law in the former British colony that would have compromised its judicial independence, although the conservative also did not hesitate to accuse the Asian country of having violated "atrociously" human rights.

As Raab confirmed today: the extradition treaty with Hong Kong is "immediately" suspended. In addition, it has extended the arms embargo applied to China to the former colony.

The United Kingdom, which has already promised that 3 million Hong Kong people would be eligible for British citizenship, therefore maintains the diplomatic and commercial pulse with the Asian country , something that, democratic activists from the region such as Nathan Law, who was recently in London, They have not hesitated to praise: "I spoke to many parliamentarians about this matter and the idea of ​​suspending the extradition treaty was quite supportive. The change is taking place."

The movement will also consolidate the axis created between the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada against China , since the latter two have already announced the suspension of their respective extradition treaties and in Washington it seems that they are also considering it. Tomorrow, in fact, Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, will fly to London to meet first with the 20 Conservative MPs who head the anti-China wing of Westminster and later with the Foreign Minister and Boris Johnson. The order of priority in the meetings, by the way, has not gone unnoticed, and some consider it to be a wake-up call to the British government for denying Trump about his responsibility in the Huawei matter.

However, Johnson could please the President of the United States by reinforcing this alliance against Beijing in the coming days, since the decision to suspend the extradition treaty with Hong Kong could be only one of the first steps proposed by the Executive. These "measures" that they "would like to take", as Raab himself raised on the BBC yesterday, could include direct sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals deemed to have violated human rights, as well as bans on entry into the country and freezing of active, something the British have already applied this month to Russian, Saudi, Burmese and North Korean citizens.

For his part, the Chinese ambassador to London, Liu Xiaoming, has classified this decision as "totally wrong", assuring that the British should not "dance to the rhythm set by the Americans" : "If the United Kingdom decides to go as far with its sanctions, China will not hesitate to give an appropriate response. You have already seen what has happened between China and the United States, they sanction us and we sanction them. "

Despite the threats, Johnson and his Executive are receiving a lot of pressure, both internal and external, to continue taking steps in this direction . Iain Duncan Smith, founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, the pressure group against the Asian country, has already approved the measure, even though it has not yet been officially announced: "It is the correct answer to what the Chinese government is doing to the people of Hong Kong. "

Not only that, but this group also ask that the UK's Tik Tok social network be expelled after the company frozen its decision to open a major office in British territory that would have created more than 3,000 jobs. Despite the fact that Raab has insisted that they want "a positive relationship" with China , from the Communist Party of the Asian country they have leaked that British companies such as Jaguar Land Rover, BP or GlaxoSmithKline could suffer the consequences of the conflict.

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