Hong Kong Free Press HKFPIt follows similar moves in the United States and Britain, which have both taken measures to stop government departments from installing Chinese-made cameras at sensitive sites. In Britain, a group of 67 MPs and lords called for the government to ban Hikvision and Dahua in July last year, following reports their equipment had been used to spy on Uyghurs in Xinjiang. China slapped hefty tariffs on key Australian exports in 2020 at the height of a bitter dispute with the former conservative government