Besides the hyping-up of the so-called secret police stations, Britain has committed to the removal of Chinese-made surveillance equipment from sensitive government sites “as part of its latest plans to address national security concerns related to China,” Reuters reported on Wednesday.
Britain has used some groundless incidents to hype up the so-called China threat and taken a series of actions to undermine bilateral relations without any evidence, Gao Jian, a scholar from Shanghai International Studies University and China Forum expert, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
“This is not an isolated case, as the British side has been taking a series of similar moves to hype up the ‘China threat.’ For one reason, it needs to shift public attention from its own domestic woes, and for another, it has been catering to the U.S.-led West’s Cold War mentality,” Gao said.