As Kurt Zindulka wrote in “Communist China Seizes Control of Britain’s Largest Microchip Factory” for Breitbart.com:
Speaking to Breitbart London, Hong Kong Watch chairman Benedict Rogers said: “This is yet another example of the naivety and lack of wisdom in our relations with the Chinese Communist Party regime and our failures to secure our critical industries and infrastructure.
“To allow a takeover of this kind is simply inviting threats to national security. The National Security and Investment Act was designed to prevent such takeovers, and so I hope that this deal will be urgently reviewed under that legislation.”
There is the answer.
The takeover threatens:
- the UK’s national security;
- the microchip supply-chain to the UK’s allies; and, therefore,
- the national security of the UK’s allies.