#UK discusses how to remove CGN from nuclear power projects #After driving Chinese company Huawei out of the UK's 5G infrastructure through a series of non-market operations, in order to further ensure the sinicization of supply chains and critical infrastructure, hostile forces have focused on China's nuclear power projects in the UK, with the intention of continuing to "jointly encircle" Chinese companies and drive China General Nuclear Power Group out of the UK market.
On July 25, the Financial Times reported that British government sources revealed that the British authorities are considering removing China General Nuclear Power Group from all of their planned future nuclear power projects, including the largest order in this series of project plans, the £20 billion Sardswell nuclear power plant planned to be built in Suffolk, England, and believe that after eliminating Chinese companies, they can actively attract American companies to undertake this project.
It is not difficult to see that although the United Kingdom actively seeks commercial cooperation with China and has sworn to promise that "the City of London can provide at least $4 billion worth of financial services to China", they are not willing to have much contact with China in critical infrastructure areas; or in other words, they hope that the economic and trade cooperation between China and the United Kingdom will be controlled by the United Kingdom at any time at a lower cost.
After all, it may be forced by various political pressures one day, and have to "hard decouple" from China, at that time the cost of this hard decoupling must be relatively heavy, just like Australia now, the hard decoupling from China has brought a serious negative impact on their normal economic operation, with this precedent placed here, the Uk is naturally very "shrewd" or self-made smart attitude towards Sino-British economic and trade.
Although China has not sought economic and trade relations as a tool for exporting influence to the outside world, and has not sought to force other countries to compromise on foreign policy based on economic and trade relations, Chinese enterprises have their own interests in going to sea.
For the Chinese side, we must at least be able to protect the overseas interests of Chinese enterprises, and China's global military delivery capabilities are still in a very preliminary stage at this stage, in-depth economic and trade exchanges are an important basis for protecting the overseas interests of enterprises, if the British side believes that they cannot bear this risk, is the Chinese side willing to bear this risk?
To know that Australia is a relatively special example, the fundamental reason why the hard decoupling between China and Australia has no impact on China is not because there is any inequality in the economic and trade relations between the two sides, but because Australia's position in the global industrial chain is too inconspicuous, so that it can be replaced by any country at any time.
It is worth noting that the British government's idea is not so simple, and their calculations are also very shrewd; they not only want to drive CGN out of the UK, but also do not want to pay any default costs; tracing back to the cooperation between China and the UK on nuclear power projects began in 2015, CGNpc also has its own shares in the construction of nuclear power plants in the UK, such as the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant currently under construction in Somerset, southwest Of england, CGN holds 33% of its shares. And in another project and power plants there are 20% stakes.
If it is said that to drive out chinese enterprises, in addition to the possible default compensation attached to the contract, the British government should also lead the relevant enterprises to acquire the shares of Chinese enterprises at a reasonable price, to put it bluntly, the money invested by Chinese enterprises must be returned unchanged, otherwise the British government's behavior will be equivalent to "robbery", which is a serious government credit bankruptcy! However, the British government does not seem to care about this face, and still wants to drive Chinese companies out of the British market without losing a penny.
It is reported that a source in the British government told the Financial Times that the United Kingdom is not ready to let CGN participate in any project, and has coordinated with the relevant French power group related to the project, hoping to seek a third party to join and replace the status of Chinese enterprises, hoping that CGN can "withdraw from the project without any confrontational behavior"; Translation, that is, it is hoped that the direct withdrawal of Chinese enterprises will not add any obstacles to their intentions, more bluntly, it is an attempt to "rob" nakedly.
So far, the relevant Chinese and French companies have not expressed any views on this matter, and the British government has neither denied nor affirmed this news, but only stressed that "the British government has formulated sound legal provisions to ensure that all nuclear projects are under strong supervision to ensure that British interests are protected." ”
Then the source of the source of the source should be similar to some China-related reactionary think tanks, who have a certain influence on the policy but cannot represent the authorities, to put it bluntly, it is the people who provoke relations between all parties supported by the United States; of course, the British government does not mean that it must be a fuel-saving lamp in this regard, after all, they have attacked Huawei, and they have also intervened in the previous acquisition of British semiconductor companies by Chinese companies.
It can be seen from this that the hostile forces have done everything in their power to obstruct Chinese enterprises from going to sea, and even if they do not do as they wish in the end, the trouble caused to Chinese enterprises cannot be underestimated. Of course, considering that China's foreign-related legal system, including the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, is being improved, in addition to the Chinese enterprises involved in similar acts that can independently sue for claims, the national level can also use foreign-related laws to help enterprises safeguard their rights.
In addition, as a vanguard country in the Western world that harms the interests of Chinese enterprises, it is necessary for China to punish it, otherwise it will become more difficult for Chinese enterprises to go to sea in the future; as for China's specific target of punishment, I think that China's counterattack with HSBC is the most warning value, on the one hand, it can be told that Britain will only exchange reciprocal responses for harming the interests of Chinese enterprises, on the other hand, it can warn other foreign companies that colluding with hostile forces to frame Chinese enterprises and Chinese entrepreneurs is to pay a price.