China Owns Half All UK Utilities - Covid and Chinese national security law in Hong Kong; Chinese Rockefeller Foundation, Triad/Masonic Secret Societies
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Interview with Robert Hanson who lives in Hong Kong on Covid 19, new Chinese national security law in Hong Kong; Chinese Rockefeller Foundation and Triad/Masonic Secret Societies; utility companies in UK owned by China - Chinaâs ownership of UK assets exposes Britainâs broken model Weak rules have allowed China to acquire significant stakes in British nuclear power, oil, steel, water and transport. BY GEORGE EATON In September 2015, during his ministerial visit to China, George Osborne tweeted: âChina and Britain stand on brink of golden decade of cooperation. No economy in world as open to Chinese investment as UK. #UKChina.â The former chancellorâs words have not aged well. Less than five years later, the âgolden decadeâ has ended (as Isabel Hilton writes in this weekâs NS). The UK government is set to announce the removal of the Chinese tech giant Huawei from Britainâs 5G network, and has offered citizenship to 350,000 British National Overseas passport holders in Hong Kong (with a further 2.6 million residents eligible), in response to Chinaâs draconian new security law in the region. Huaweiâs immersion in Britainâs telecoms network is the most prominent example of Chinese investment (its equipment is also used in 2G, 3G and 4G networks) â but it is far from the only one. The state-owned China General Nuclear Power holds a 33.5 per cent stake in the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant under construction in Somerset (the UKâs first since 1995). In return for its investment in Hinkley, CGN was rewarded with a 20 per stake in the planned Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk, and with the chance to build its own reactor in Bradwell, Essex (which would be the first Chinese-built nuclear plant outside China). China has also become the largest operator in the North Sea through the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), which boasts on its website that it accounts for âmore than 25 per cent of the UKâs oil production, and 10 per cent of the countryâs energy needsâ. CNOOC, which benefited from billions of pounds of tax breaks introduced by Osborne for oil companies, was gifted this privileged position despite the firmâs chairman, Wang Yilin, declaring to employees in 2012 that âlarge-scale deep-water rigs are our mobile national territory and a strategic weaponâ. Another Chinese state company, China Huaneng Group, is building what is billed as âEuropeâs largest battery storage projectâ in Wiltshire. China has also ventured into the UKâs transport sector: MTR, a Hong Kong company, holds a 30 per cent stake in South Western Railway, and has been awarded the London Crossrail franchise. The China Investment Corporation, Chinaâs sovereign wealth fund, owns a 10 per cent stake in Heathrow airport (as well as a 9 per cent stake in Thames Water). Geely, a privately-held Chinese firm, is the sole owner of the London Electric Vehicle Company, which produces London black cabs, and has a majority stake in Lotus, the sports car manufacturer. More recently, the Chinese firm Jingye bought British Steel in November 2019 for the paltry sum of £50m, prompting the Labour peer and former transport secretary Andrew Adonis to observe: âChina destroys British Steel by dumping cheap steel, courtesy of the Cameron/Osborne government which resisted tough EU anti-dumping measures because they were sucking up to President Xi. Now it buys the remnants for a pittance.â Chinaâs long march through UK industry â which until recently attracted stunningly little scrutiny â is a symptom of Britainâs broken economic model. As this weekâs NS leader notes: âNo other major Western country has allowed so many of its strategic industries, assets and pre-eminent companies to fall into foreign ownershipâ. The majority of the UKâs rail franchises are run by foreign owners, including the French, German, Dutch and Italian states. And more than 70 per cent of the shares in Englandâs nine privatised water companies are held by overseas firms, including hedge funds and private equity companies based in tax havens. For decades, rather than investing adequately in infrastructure, the British state has preferred to subcontract this task to foreign or private companies (allowing for borrowing to be kept off the governmentâs balance sheet). In the case of China, some wagered that increased trade would push the country towards Western-style democracy: economic liberalisation would beget political liberalisation. But the reverse has proved the case. Xi Jinping, who abolished presidential term limits in 2018, is Chinaâs most unashamedly authoritarian leader since Mao Zedong. In Xinjiang, the Chinese government is detaining one million Uighur people and other Muslim minorities in concentration camps. Confronted by Chinaâs defiant unreformism, Europe is tightening rules on foreign ownership. On 17 June, the European Commission announced proposals designed to prevent China and others from using government subsidies to outbid competitors for European assets. âWe donât want critical infrastructure, like electricity, water and streets, to be taken over by companies when weâre not 100 per cent sure what their intentions are,â Germanyâs economy minister, Peter Altmaier, said earlier this year. Brexit has left Britain more geopolitically vulnerable: as it severs ties with the EU, dare it alienate another of the worldâs economic superpowers? But faced with internal party pressure, Boris Johnsonâs administration has adopted the most Sinosceptic stance of any recent government. Labour, too, is challenging ministers to take a less laissez-faire position towards China. âWeâve been going ahead with Chinese investment without regard for consequences for national security for too long,â the shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, said recently. Brexit was once anticipated as the moment that the UK would complete the Thatcherite revolution through the trinity of privatisation, deregulation and tax cuts, as well as ultra-liberal trade deals. But the post-EU era is instead coinciding with a larger state and a more restrictive ownership regime. In short, one could say that Britainâs economy is becoming more European.
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Theosophist, clairvoyant and spiritualist David Icke debunked â Ivan Fraser says Icke plagarised his 1999 The Biggest Secret book from Brian Desborough word for word. Icke, like other conspiracy researchers such as Jordan Maxwell, Michael Tsarion, and Acharya S, is an ardent critic of the Illuminati, but presents the myriad speculations of Theosophy as the truth being suppressed. All his main teachings are Theosophical, and therefore identical to those of the Illuminati, which is he is purportedly denouncing. THEOSOPHICAL SOURCES OF DAVID ICKEâS REPTILIAN THEORY Posted on 06 June 2015. NOVANEWS - by David Livingstone Although most recently popularized by David Icke, the notions of the connection of a worldwide conspiracy orchestrated by Reptilian beings, like the UFO mythos itself, has its origins in Theosophy, the occult tradition founded by H. P. Blavatsky, godmother of the New Age movement, and pre-eminent personality of the Occult Revival of the late nineteenth century...
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