The new Commissioner of Customs, He Peishan, took up her new post last Thursday (21st). She met with the media for the first time and stated that she would be committed to safeguarding national security and preventing terrorist activities.
She mentioned that after the implementation of the "Minato National Security Law", although the inflow of guns, ammunition, strategic materials and other figures has been greatly reduced, there are still people with ulterior motives importing "soft confrontation" items. The customs will prevent the influx of relevant information and the customs will also cooperate. The country’s foreign trade restrictions and cracking down on smuggling activities are just like the earlier joint action with the Mainland to crack down on the smuggling of lobsters in Australia. It is to safeguard China’s trade restrictions on Australia and national security.
At first glance, "Lobster smuggling involves national security" may cause a funny misunderstanding, but in fact, "national security" covers more than a dozen key areas. In addition to political security and homeland security, which are generally recognized by people, it also includes new types of biology. Security, especially as the new crown pneumonia rages across the world, protecting people’s health has become a major focus of national security.
Food safety belongs to the category of biosafety
According to the government’s National Security Education Day website, national security covers more than ten key areas, including politics, land, military, economy, culture, society, science and technology, networks, ecology, biosecurity, space security and other security, among which food security belongs to Biosafety category.
According to the website, in the past, people were more concerned about the adequacy of food supply, but from the perspective of biosafety, it is also important to ensure food safety. For example, it is important to ensure that imported food is not contaminated by the 2019 coronavirus, and that beef food is free from the risk of infectious factors such as "mad cow disease". .
▼National security covers more than ten areas▼
Ho Junxian: The Hong Kong government has made fewer attempts to crack down on smuggling at sea, making Hong Kong a smuggling paradise
Over the past year or so, the number of Australian lobsters imported into China has been greatly reduced. Chinese officials have explained that because of health and quarantine issues, they questioned that lobsters may contain metals, so they are quarantined in accordance with the law to ensure consumer safety.
The Chairman of the Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene Committee of the Legislative Council and DAB’s Agriculture and Fisheries Sector Member Ho Chun-yin said that smuggled goods have the opportunity to damage the environment. For example, people smuggled Podocarpus pine, a national secondary protected plant from time to time. Therefore, it is necessary to step up efforts to combat smuggling. .
He pointed out that in the past, the SAR government has done less to combat smuggling at sea, making Hong Kong a "smuggling paradise." Different foods are smuggled back to the Mainland through Hong Kong, and food safety is difficult to guarantee.
He Junxian pointed out that cracking down on lobster smuggling is not simply a matter of "eating, eating, and eating". He emphasized that Hong Kong, as a part of the country, has the responsibility to proactively safeguard national security, including ideological cooperation, not being independent, and must stand on the same front with the country. He also suggested The Hong Kong government has strengthened its national security education work.
Liu Zhaojia, the vice chairman of the National Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies, pointed out that the definition of "national security" in the Mainland is broad, not limited to political and territorial security in the traditional sense, but also includes the Internet and biosecurity. He does not rule out the anti-lobster smuggling theory and biosecurity. Security has a certain relationship.
He also pointed out that in recent years, Australia has acted unfriendly to China, and foods such as wine and beef have also been banned from invading China, which may involve countering Australia's strategy of suppressing China and achieving national security in terms of trade.
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