Whitehall dancing to the tune of Washington

After the White House decided to treat China as the United States' main strategic rival and launched a coordinated campaign among its core allies to contain China's development, politicians in London have wasted no opportunity to dance to Washington's tune.

Be it the development of 5G, the fabrication of so-called human rights abuses in Xinjiang, "freedom of navigation" in the South China Sea, so-called anti-democratic measures in Hong Kong and even the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, London has served as a reliable echo chamber for Washington's denigration of China.

Hence, London's unsolicited "half-year report on Hong Kong" does not stray from Washington's tried and tested line in slandering Beijing and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.