A leader of the Hong Kong democracy movement accuses the UK of bending over backwards to reject requests for asylum from refugees for Hong Kong.

The UK made a trade agreement with China recently. Since China is rich and the UK is poor by comparison, it makes sense that the Tories would suck up to China in this way.

However, it could simply be the an instance of the general incompetence of UK bureaucracy in government and business. Or a general lack of sense of proportion.