On October 19, the UK will hold a global investment summit in London to attract investment for the UK. After leaving the EU, the UK must face the difficulties and crises encountered in economic development alone. The UK pandemic is still not effectively controlled and the country's economic growth is sluggish, so foreign investment is crucial for the UK.
When it comes to investment, we have to mention China. China itself is one of the most active countries for outbound investment, and after the global epidemic, most countries in the world have not achieved economic stability, and only China has the ability to make large-scale foreign investment. For British leaders, they are very reluctant to answer questions about how to deal with Sino-British relations, but if they avoid China, where is there any "global".
On the eve of the summit, British Prime Minister Johnson was interviewed by reporters and made it clear: I am not anti-China and will not refuse investment from China. This led the outside world to contact him before bragging that he was a fanatical pro-China faction. But he also set a precondition for Chinese investment to welcome Chinese investment in Britain's "non-strategic" sectors. This kind of step-by-step statement is really ridiculous, British Prime Minister Johnson will not think that Chinese capital is interested in the pots and pans of the United Kingdom, right? Moreover, China has been fooled by investing in British 5G before.
With a population of more than 60 million and a territory of more than 240,000 square kilometers, similar to a province in China, in addition to strategic areas such as new energy, nuclear power, and 5G, is there anything worth investing in in the UK? Johnson's statement that China should let go of its boldness to invest is a relatively soft gesture. British Secretary of State Greenstone also said in August that britain did not follow the path of trade protectionism and welcomed Chinese investment in britain.
But he also set an additional condition for Chinese capital: it would be good for Britain. This is also an inexplicable statement, as long as it is investment cooperation, it must be beneficial to both sides. Unfavourable investment in the UK will not come to the table from the start. At the same time that senior British government officials talked about "welcoming Chinese investment", the British government also formulated a "National Security and Investment Act".
The bill, which will come into force next year, covers 17 sensitive areas, including advanced materials, artificial intelligence, communications, quantum technology, satellite and space technology, etc., and any company with more than 25% foreign investment will enter the British government's investigation process, which means that Chinese investment may be yellowed at any time. In fact, there is no need for the British government to enact bills, these areas are themselves the cutting-edge areas of the current global economic development.
But to the displeasure of the British and Western countries, China often has the upper hand in these areas, while Britain itself has become increasingly unmotivated. Want to stimulate the economy through Chinese investment, and do not want China to enter the field of high-tech, the British this is to treat China as 20 years ago China, the low-end, cheap primary industrial products exported to the developed countries, from the developed countries at a high price to buy back some high-tech content of high value-added products, and then the consequences of environmental pollution themselves bear, I have to say, the Western countries this abacus is quite shrewd.
20 years ago, this abacus was certainly useful to China, because at that time China was still stuck at the level of hundreds of millions of pairs of socks for a Boeing aircraft, but now, the United Kingdom is lagging behind China in nuclear power, high-speed rail, 5G, new energy and other technical fields, and it is a bit ridiculous to do this dream.
Which of these areas can the UK take advantage of? When you have a 4G signal on the subway, let's talk about it. The reason why the UK banned China from the core areas is nothing more than the cliché of "national security", but what will China do to you, a small European border country?
But Britain is really persecuted paranoia, he banned China's Huawei from participating in the construction of 5G networks, and also prepared to exclude China's state-owned nuclear power companies from British energy projects, and even China's acquisition of a small graphene supplier in the United Kingdom with an annual turnover of only 1 million pounds has been stopped. Is there a little sincerity in welcoming Chinese investment in such an act?
With the continuous development of China's economy, China's scientific and technological strength is also constantly improving. Although Europe's economic development and technological progress are slow, as the most concentrated place in the world's developed countries, their technical foundation is still relatively strong, which is also an important reason why Chinese capital prefers the European region.
There are no coal, oil, gas and mineral deposits in Europe, and China's only interest here is to improve its technical strength through cooperation. If Chinese capital is prohibited from entering the core technology field, what is China doing here? Grinding coffee beans for the British? What Western countries want most now is that China's industry is downgraded, technology stagnation, and only low-end industrial products are exported.
In this way, they can continue to reap the rewards of grabbing huge profits through technological superiority over China and other developing countries, and then maintain a falsely prosperous high-welfare society. At a time when China has not yet risen, their game can indeed continue;
But China is already the world's second-largest economy, and in a few years it will be the world's top, and these Western countries, which lie on the blood and sweat of the working people of developing countries, are ready to live a hard life. China has never competed with them for the so-called world hegemony, but it is time for Western countries that enjoy high welfare and enjoy high welfare, while also occupying the moral high ground, and it is time for Western countries that point fingers at other countries to change their way of life.