Great Britain will have to balance the “very clear” country security concerns, especially about China, to be an “external” commercial country in its soft “fragile” economy, according to a Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
Catherine West said the country “sometimes has to be involved” in nations whose values “can fully align with ours,” and that British businesses in Hong Kong say it is “so beautiful” when visited through parliamentarians.
She added Britain’s “rather exposed position” after Brexit means it has to be “outwardly looking in our economy if we want our residents and our constituents to get away from food banks”.
His comments came here when he defended that of Foreign Minister Rachel Reeves in China after arrest orders issued for prodemocratic activists living in the United Kingdom.
Former conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who is a component of a safe number of sanctioned deputies through China, said that arrest orders are “the last act of a Chinese communist compineta that does not care what countries like the kingdom like the kingdom United “when he strives for the sanctions imposed.
Several other MPs voiced concerns over the safety of Hongkongers living in the UK.
Chancellor Ms. Reeves is expected to leave for China this week for talks with Vice Premier Lifeng after an assembly between Sir Keir Starmer and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in November.
Ms West rejected calls to cancel the trip as MPs questioned why it is going ahead after Hong Kong police offered rewards for information leading to the arrests of six campaigners, four of whom are currently living in the UK.
In an urgent question in the Commons, shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said the warrants “show this Government’s supposed reset with China is just one way”.
She said, “Before Assembly Speaker Xi, the premier said he sought a coherent, sustainable and respectful relationship, and said the couple agreed that there are no more surprises. “
Give me Priti added: “Can the minister verify with an undeniable yes or not, that the chancellor can raise those bonuses to the highest point when he falls in China next week to lead a rapid investment for the rescue of his failed economic strategy? Forget about human rights problems on your visit.
Mrs. West replied: “We are in a position in which our economy is quite fragile, and we have very transparent national security problems, and today a very intelligent example, we will have to balance those who face the outside and in all Parties.
“And that’s why I apologize for having tried British issues abroad, especially in Hong Kong, where British corporations said it was very lovely to see the agents a stop. “
The spokesman for Foreign Liberal Affairs, Calum Miller, also suggested to the Government to “reconsider” the adventure of the chancellor to Beijing, in the soft mandates and the detention without stopping Jimmy Lai.
The supporter of the provocation in extra time, Mr. Lai, imprisoned in the last 2020 in Hong Kong and is recently arrested in isolation after being accused of having Viopast doubted the National Security Law.
Mrs. West said she had “personally promised” the son of Mr. Lai who would raise the case of his father, and added: “Unfortunately, due to our position exposed after Brexit, we will have to look externally in our economy if we need you to need Our citizens and the electorate move away from food banks.
Labour MP Sarah Owen (Luton North) has asked the insurance company that the British police perfectly enforce the “seriousness of the threat” to the protection of Hong Kongers on British soil.
Labour MP Mark Sewards (Leeds, South West and Morley) highlighted the case of British resident Chloé Cheung and that he had been subjected to a £100,000 bonus for “telling the truth” about Mr Lai.
Ms West said she would ensure a “specially designed package of safety” is developed for the woman if Mr Sewards felt more needed to be done.
After the Liberal Democratic Deputy director, Dean (Carshalton and Wallington) reported that the government deserves to “cancel the Foreign Minister” to China, Mrs. West said: “There will be no cancellation of the base that there will have to be an external external external concentrate details through the United Kingdom, specifically given the economic inheritance and the position in which we are.
Luke of Pulford, director of the Interparliamentary Alliance on China, described West’s comments on the United Kingdom’s negotiation objectives as a “shocking entry. “
He wrote on social media site X: “Erm, no. We don’t trade away our national security.”
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