Recently, the UK has done something significant by orchestrating a drama, attempting to smear China, especially Hong Kong, as a financial center.
Over the past few months, the UK has been vigorously chanting slogans, claiming to arrest "Chinese workers."
The Chinese diplomatic mission targeted by the UK government is the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London.
The UK has arrested three employees from this normal diplomatic mission, including two Chinese nationals and one British national, accusing them of "assisting foreign intervention."
This behavior is purely fabricating charges to create a case.
On one hand, it's natural for Chinese diplomatic missions abroad to liaise with local Chinese communities, organize gatherings, and establish contact books.
On the other hand, the Chinese government has repeatedly demanded evidence from the UK, which the UK has been unable to provide.
In fact, the UK and the US have done too much in other countries, and now, feeling guilty themselves, they want to splash dirty water on China.
The act of falsely accusing and arresting employees of Chinese diplomatic missions is extremely malicious.
However, recently, the UK has shown the world that it can further lower the bar for international relations.
Just in the past few days, it has been confirmed that the British man among the three arrested has died "for unknown reasons."
Firstly, the deceased British man was on parole and under close surveillance by the UK police.
The likelihood of a third party being able to harm him successfully is very low, with the prime suspect being the UK itself.
Secondly, the deceased was scheduled to appear in court for self-defense this Friday, but the UK was obviously worried about being exposed and chose to act preemptively, which is logical.
Why does the UK keep targeting Hong Kong, particularly China?
There are two reasons.
Firstly, it's well known that Hong Kong has been under British colonial rule in modern times, and now, despite Britain's decline, it can't shake off the burden of the British Empire.
Seeing Hong Kong becoming increasingly prosperous makes them feel uneasy, so they have to come out to assert their presence.
This is a pathological form of imperialism that needs treatment.
Secondly, and most importantly, London, UK, wants to suppress Hong Kong to maintain its position as a global financial center.
Although London is an old financial center, signs of its decline have become evident since Brexit and the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
According to the Financial Times, London has been surpassed by New York and lost its position as the world's top financial center.
In this situation, the UK, in cooperation with the US's trade and financial wars, has targeted Hong Kong.
The aim is to gradually negate Hong Kong's status as a free port of capital, forcing funds from Hong Kong's financial market to flee to London, helping London reclaim its position as a financial center.
The criticism of the Hong Kong National Security Law by the UK and the accusations against personnel from Hong Kong diplomatic missions abroad are essentially for one purpose: to seize Hong Kong's funds and investors, even if it means resorting to special measures.
However, China will not let the UK succeed this time.
China needs a free port of capital, and Hong Kong is our own territory. Even though there have been some "family disputes" in the past, we cannot allow the UK to interfere.
In April of this year, the Japanese yen plummeted, causing turmoil in the entire Asian financial market.
However, with the mainland and the RMB as backing, Hong Kong performed exceptionally well, attracting a large influx of funds fleeing from Japan, leading to a surge in the Hong Kong stock market.
In contrast, the UK economy has shrunk for two consecutive quarters, entering a technical recession.
London is no longer able to compete with Hong Kong on the front lines.
The UK government is eager to get a piece of the pie from Hong Kong, but it fails to realize that resorting to special measures, while possibly effective in the short term, will only raise doubts among more investors about the UK's national credit and security environment in the long term.
As a financial city, London is no longer able to compete with Hong Kong.
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