LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - China is no longer welcome in Britain''s steel sector after the government had to pass emergency legislation on Saturday to ensure control of Chinese-owned...
The UK government''s decision to seize control of British Steel from Chinese owner Jingye has led to demands for greater scrutiny of China''s investments in the country.
Labour has been urged to phase out Chinese ownership of UK oil, nuclear power and renewable energy infrastructure after claims of attempted "sabotage" at British Steel.
But the UK government has now taken control of the Scunthorpe site, amid claims the Chinese owners were planning to permanently decommission its two blast furnaces and use its
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Ministers said British Steel''s owners, China''s Jingye Group, had wanted to shut the furnaces at the Scunthorpe plant after they rejected a government funding proposal, which would
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Members of Parliament gathered for a rare Saturday meeting to pass an emergency law that allowed the government to take over operations and keep two blast furnaces operating. The
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The government said it was acting to prevent the owners of the British Steel complex in Scunthorpe, a Chinese company called Jingye, from taking steps unilaterally to close the blast...
China was also involved in the Sizewell C nuclear power station but in 2022, the UK government forced Beijing out, spending £679m of taxpayer cash as part of an exit deal.
Previous British governments had been "naive" to allow Chinese companies to be involved in the steel sector, business minister Jonathan Reynolds said.
British Steel “should mark the start of the strategic disentanglement of U.K. critical infrastructure from the Chinese state, reflective of the new geopolitical realities," said Jaya Pathak of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), a Beijing-critical group of lawmakers. British Steel’s case is a dramatic one — but it's far from unique.
The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe, in northeast England, has Britain’s last two operating blast furnaces, huge chambers that produce molten metal using iron ore and coke, a derivative of coal. Other mills then finish the crude steel into products like rails for train lines and beams for the construction industry.
China was also involved in the Sizewell C nuclear power station but in 2022, the UK government forced Beijing out, spending £679m of taxpayer cash as part of an exit deal.
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