China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday that it had urged Britain to stop sanctioning Chinese firms after the country sanctioned five Chinese companies over their links to Russia.
In a statement, the ministry said China "firmly opposes Britain’s actions on the grounds that the Chinese companies are “related to Russia.”
Britain last week imposed its first sanctions targeting vessels in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “shadow fleet” that it said was used to circumvent Western sanctions on the trade in Russian oil.
The action, part of 50 new sanctions and coordinated with G7 partners, also targeted suppliers of munitions, machine tools, microelectronics, and logistics to Russia’s military, including entities based in China, Israel, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, the British government said.
Britain’s approach has ignored China’s representations and the momentum and had a negative impact on economic and trade relations between China and the UK, China’s commerce ministry said.
“Britain’s approach is a unilateral sanction that has no basis in international law,” it added. “We urge Britain to immediately correct its erroneous practices.”
Well done Britain!
Lets see how spineless Britain reacts. There is no EU to protect them…
So you think Britain is going to drop those sanctions that they just agreed with the other G7 countries?
Basically. I’d be positively surprised if they don’t.
Why?
Cause they are economically a shitshow.
Lmfaooo
Britain has been harsher on China than anybody in the EU for a while now.
UK-China relations were already rocky even before the BS in Hong Kong and Russia invading Ukraine, and it’s got worse from there. Clearly you’re talking about something that you know nothing about.
You’re letting your xenophobic attitude towards the UK cloud your judgement.
Shepooh mad?
Aw diddums.
