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Some personal news, as the kids say.
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ON THIS DAY IN 2015
This legendary picture is taken.
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BREAKING
The UK now considers Beijing to be in a state of ongoing non-compliance with the Sino-British Joint Declaration
Foreign Secretary statement on radical changes to Hong Kong's electoral system.
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The United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister: Rishi Sunak.
By our count, he made seven China-related pledges during his summer campaign. Let's see what happens next...
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Asia is turning to China because you neglect it, says East Timor leader
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Letter in The Times today from Lord (Chris) Patten, last Governor of Hong Kong.
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Hongkongers who have fled to the UK following China’s security laws crackdown are young, highly skilled and in high-paid jobs, a survey commissioned by the Home Office has found.
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BREAKING: UK Government Statement on the arrest of the Shenzhen 12
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (
@DominicRaab
) has expressed his deep concern at arrest of the Shenzhen 12 in China.
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NEW: Matt Pottinger, US deputy national security adviser, 2019-21, has written to The Times with his version and account of the 5G and Huawei story.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks Mandarin to Lib Dem Ed Davey today during PMQs.
Davey's office received (registered) money from Christine Lee, who was accused by MI5 last week of political interference on behalf of Chinese state.
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Very aggressive statement from the Chinese Embassy in the UK on the BBC's recent Taiwan interview.
"No one who forgets his own origins and split his motherland will come to good end."
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Uyghurs in the UK are being intimidated into silence by Chinese authorities as the “long arm” of the repressive regime reaches exiles in Europe, a report has found.
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This is a really bizarre confrontation in Kings Cross St Pancras station. Does anyone know the background here/why they are so keen not to be on camera?
A bunch of 🇨🇳-waving Chinese, apparently from a 🇨🇳 TV broadcaster, told pianist Brendan Kavanagh — who regularly live-streams his performances on public pianos in public venues — to stop showing their faces in his live-streaming while he’s playing the piano in a shopping mall in…
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After more than 20 years in Britain as a prominent physicist dedicated to unveiling the secrets of superfast fluids, Zhang Yonghao has joined China’s new national hypersonic laboratory in Beijing.
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One in five young people in Hong Kong are planning to leave and settle overseas and half of under-35s say they were not confident of the city’s future.
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"The head of Rugby School is opening a branch in Japan after shunning offers from China and other countries that would restrict the curriculum."
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BREAKING
Two
@ipacglobal
members,
@MPIainDS
and
@uffeelbaek
, have written to Mark Tucker of
@HSBC
concerning issues with the bank and 🇭🇰
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Letter from the Chair of
@CommonsBEIS
and
@ipacglobal
member
@Nus_Ghani
to
@HikvisionHQ
regarding the Forced labour in UK value chains inquiry.
Not clear if Hikvision has replied yet, but one to keep a very close eye on.
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"An amendment to the National Security and Investment Bill is likely to reduce sharply the number of foreign takeovers that are scrutinised by the new regime, which is being implemented partly to monitor Chinese influence on British industry."
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Nearly nine months after it was first suggested by a Business Select Committee, the UK is now considering banning Xinjiang imports.
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Letter in the Financial Times - 'It’s time HSBC returned Hong Kong activists’ assets'
From
@Siobhain_Mc
MP, Treasury Select Committee Member and
@ipacglobal
member.
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🗣️ Alba party's Neale Hanvey (
@JNHanvey
) asks why Government is "propping up discredited Chinese imports' with £3bn, citing promises that 2m lateral flow tests would be ordered from a domestic firm in March.
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Finland's PM has warned Europe that is must wean itself off Chinese tech.
“You can be influenced more easily if our societies are digitised. If you cut production [in strategically important sectors] then we are vulnerable and we can be influenced.”
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One in eight MPs signed a letter to Liz Truss this week.
Find out why.
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The samples (from Antarctica) were sent to Sangon Biotech in Shanghai for sequencing in Dec 2019, where they became contaminated with a previously unknown variant of Covid-19.
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BREAKING
UK Parliament declares genocide is taking place in Xinjiang
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.
@ipacglobal
member
@IoWBobSeely
writes in the Telegraph:
Welcoming Hong Kongers shows Global Britain is willing to do more than virtue signal
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A Hong Kong court relied on a ruling by the UK’s most senior judge to justify jailing a former pro-democracy member of the territory’s parliament.
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🚨 NEW: The
@FCDOGovUK
has updated its Overseas Business Risk for China, adding to the Xinjiang section.
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Chinese ambassador to the UK banned from Parliament
Invitation for Zheng Zeguang to visit House of Commons revoked amid outrage among MPs and peers placed under sanctions by China
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UK judges must not prop up totalitarianism | Law | The Times
@ipacglobal
member and
@hk_watch
patron
@amcarmichaelMP
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🚨🇬🇧🇨🇳🚨
There will be a debate on the UK's lack of a China Strategy next month in Parliament!
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NEW: Quote from Rishi Sunak spokesperson on China.
“Rishi is unambiguous about China. He will stand up to the Chinese state whenever it threatens our national security and will challenge their contravention of British values in the strongest terms."
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Letter from
@denniswhkwok
and
@Johnny_HKWatch
of
@hk_watch
in the Financial Times re Baillie Gifford’s James Anderson in last week's paper.
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Another letter in The Times today from leaders of three major faiths urging politicians to back the genocide amendment
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SCOOP
@ipacglobal
MPs have been told by a senior Govt Minister that the upcoming Procurement Bill will have a Modern Slavery element.
This could have significant ramifications for ALL 🇬🇧 supply chains.
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Where does each potential Prime Minister stand on China?
A short thread with nice pics.
Full briefing for paid subscribers ➡️
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🚨🚨🚨 UN Human Rights Council 47: Joint statement on the human rights situation in Xinjiang
Joint statement on behalf of more than 40 countries, delivered by Leslie E. Norton, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations.
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JUST IN:
UK PM Boris Johnson confirms there will be "effectively a diplomatic boycott" with neither Ministers NOR officials to attend the
#Beijing2022
Olympics in response to
@MPIainDS
.
"No officials are expected to attend"
@ipacglobal
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Foreign Affairs Committee Chair
@aliciakearns
warns that the UK is being used as a dumping ground for solar panels made using Xinjiang forced labour.
Green energy must not come "off the back of slavery and genocide", she said.
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🚨🆕🚨: Q from Tory MP
@RobBAylesbury
on China sending 39 warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Sunday.
PM
@BorisJohnson
says Chinese incursion into Taiwanese airspace "not conducive to peace and stability in the region".
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NEW: The Home Office has accepted the three recommendations from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) on the Hong Kong BN(O) scheme.
They are listed below.
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The search for Covid-19’s origins continues to be hindered by fear of offending China. The Lancet Commission is the latest to highlight how seeking the truth has come second to other considerations, writes
@mattwridley
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Forced labour in UK value chains – Nusrat Ghani (
@Nus_Ghani
) responds to BBC report on labour in China’s Xinjiang cotton fields. Ghani is also an
@ipacglobal
member.
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WOW! BREAKING.
The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (
@trussliz
) SUPPORTS THE WITHDRAWAL of serving UK judges from the 🇭🇰 Court of Final Appeal.
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🚨 SECOND MENTION OF CHINA
🗣️ Truss now speaks about free world "rethink[ing] their economic dependence [on Russia] - and we've already started working on that with China...disconnection of Huawei, reducing strategic dependency on China..."
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Head of MI5 Ken McCallum has given an interview to the Daily Mail raising significant concerns over China.
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Thread of 🇬🇧 MPs that have tweeted support for
@benedictrogers
and
@hk_watch
I’ll include some detail on each MP too 🤝
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Who stole the meat from Raab’s China policy?
“For months officials at the Foreign Office have been preparing tough measures against Beijing, including Magnitsky-style sanctions against five Chinese officials linked to atrocities against the Uighurs”
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🇬🇧🇨🇳
Cutting through the noise: two key questions in this week's Brief on Chinese 'spies' and interference.
First: why has MI5 chosen this moment to act?
Second: how was Lee allowed to keep operating for so long?
Short thread on some thoughts:
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Hello 👋
We've looked at the new
@hk_watch
report, released earlier today.
🔖"ESG, China & Human Rights - why the time has come for investors to react"
Short thread.
@benedictrogers
,
@Johnny_HKWatch
,
@SamGoodman22
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More research into how widespread Hikvision and Dahua's use is across British life.
- More than half of secondary schools in England use Hikvision or Dahua cameras.
- A total of 251 local authorities — about 75% of respondents — use them.
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Sad to see old friends fight like this…
Chinese Embassy in London sends a letter to Telegraph (doesn’t look like they published it) criticising their Taiwan coverage.
Readers may remember the Tele ran Chinese propaganda for more than a decade, reportedly for 750k p/a.
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The Home Office is not keeping a record of instances that Uyghurs are harassed by "Chinese authorities" on UK soil, despite being "aware of reports" of it happening.
@SKinnock
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The West is at last taking the threat from China seriously
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The Economist gets absolutely slammed in this week's edition for their article on genocide in the last magazine. Fair play to them for publishing these letters.
Some
@ipacglobal
names in here.
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Short thread on the Prime Minister's dad - Stanley Johnson.
• Last week, Johnson Senior uploaded a pic of his visit to the
@ChineseEmbinUK
.
From L to R: H.E Zheng Zequang, Political Councillor Zhang Limin, OneTribe TV CEO Dale Templar, and Johnson Sr.
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Writing for
@ITV
,
@ipacglobal
coordinator and Adviser to the World Uyghur Congress (
@UyghurCongress
)
@lukedepulford
looks at the upcoming Uyghur Tribunal (
@TribunalUyghur
) which takes place in London this weekend.
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NEW: The Government has updated its Overseas Business Risk for China for the first time since August 2021.
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"We often lean quite quickly into laissez-faire policies."
This is a great anecdote from
@EdConwaySky
's Committee session earlier this week on what happens when Government's don't give enough thought to supply chains.
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"Deeply concerned" is the political equivalent of "thoughts and prayers"
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"In a private letter dated Aug 2023, Liz Truss — who casts herself as the most high-profile China hawk on the Tory backbenches — asked Biz Sec Kemi Badenoch to intervene on behalf of a 🇬🇧 defence manufacturer hoping to sell military equipment to 🇨🇳"
😂
.
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PM Boris Johnson spoke to
@ipacglobal
members this morning
This morning I spoke with some of those who have been shining a light on the gross human rights violations being perpetrated against Uyghur Muslims.
I stand firmly with them and the other British citizens sanctioned by China.
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'The group [of
@ipacglobal
MPs] urged their governments to create blacklists similar to the US Commerce Department’s Entity List to force investment firms to divest from companies with ties to forced labour and other alleged abuses in the region.'
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“It is high time to bolster our defences against our authoritarian adversaries. But we should remember that nothing they do is nearly as damaging as the harms we inflict on ourselves.”
@edwardlucas
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HM Queen Elizabeth II became the first British sovereign to visit China in 1986, officially visiting the country with the Duke of Edinburgh over a six-day period beginning on 13 October.
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“The UK’s Foreign Office, our Diplomatic Service, our Intelligence Services and our Aid and Development capabilities are some of the finest assets of their kind anywhere in the world.”
This is what the Intelligence and Security Committee said about Cameron this summer.
The Prime Minister has asked me to serve as his Foreign Secretary and I have gladly accepted.
We are facing a daunting set of international challenges, including the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East. At this time of profound global change, it has rarely been more…
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NEW:
@ChinaResearchGp
@aliciakearns
has submitted an amendment to the Higher Education Bill which seeks to ban Confucius Institutes from operating in the U.K.
Backed by Tom Tugendhat, Damian Green, Kevin Hollinrake, Chris Bryant, Alistair Carmichael.
Via
@EleniCourea
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“Every single bill that [government] brings forward, will be a China bill until they reform their policy. Every single one."
Some background on this amendment from
@hoffman_noa
in
@politicshome
, w comments from
@lukedepulford
#GenocideAmendment
klaxon🚨
Debated on MONDAY (31 Jan) in
@UKHouseofLords
around 4pm 👀
Led by former
@Conservatives
Chief Whip Lord Blencathra
[Amendment prevents health products being sourced from areas where there is a serious risk of genocide]
#UnmaskGenocide
#Uyghurs
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"What is happening to the Uighurs is this century’s Holocaust but it is being executed by a country that, instead of being isolated from the world, is increasing its economic reach", writes
@hannahluci
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Times cartoon today, on the UN’s Xinjiang report and China
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More than two-thirds of drones operated by police forces in the UK are made by a Chinese firm that is blacklisted in the US as a national security risk, according to data obtained by The Telegraph.
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A lab leak in Wuhan, China, is now considered the most likely origin of the Covid pandemic “behind closed doors” in the Government, it has been claimed.
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🇨🇳🇬🇧🇨🇳🇬🇧🇨🇳
Good morning,
Today, the
@LordsIRCom
publishes a new report examining the UK’s (lack of) strategy towards China. ‘The UK and China's security and trade relationship: A strategic void’
Summary below 👇👇👇
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Big news in 🇬🇧 🇨🇳 scene!
Congratulations to
@Nus_Ghani
who has been appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
#Reshuffle
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"We are launching a buddy-system which aims to pair Hongkongers with local Brits."
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BREAKING: An interference warning from MI5 is being circulated to MPs and peers claiming that a female Chinese national has been seeking to improperly influence parliamentarians.
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Chinese Embassy on this.
"Instead of mustering the courage to face & reflect on the UK side's problematic human rights records + recent measures that have drawn wide criticism [Truss] has kept on smearing China...in an attempt to divert public attention"
Fully support the Netherlands' statement on behalf of 47 countries at
@UN_HRC
, condemning China’s appalling human rights violations in Xinjiang & Tibet and undermining fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong.
The evidence is undeniable and China must stop human rights violations.
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Delighted to be appearing alongside Foreign Secretary
@JamesCleverly
and Policy Exchange’s
@sophgaston
on a
@spectator
panel moderated by the excellent
@CindyXiaodanYu
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🚨 | BREAKING
Labour's Shadow Business Secretary
@Ed_Miliband
comments on the 🇨🇳 takeover of Newport Wafer Fab
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Good morning.
We have pulled the main points and recommendations from
@hk_watch
's new report - "Patriots Only": Hong Kong Officials and Lawmakers' Property Overseas
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WTA does the right thing in standing up to China over Peng Shuai | Peng Shuai | The Guardian
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.
@ipacglobal
member and driving force behind the
@CommonsBEIS
inquiry into supply chains in Xinjiang
@Nus_Ghani
writes in
@ConHome
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NEW:
Nathan Law (
@nathanlawkc
) writes in The Guardian.
"But people still wonder: why London, not New York, not Washington DC? The answer relates to the west’s strategy for countering the authoritarian expansion of China."
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The UK's Ambassador to China
@CWilson_FCDO
writes in today's Caixin.
@ukinchina
"Collaboration between China and the U.K on climate change already showcases some of the best achievements of our bilateral relationship."
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Lord Jonathan Sumption, a former judge on the UK’s Supreme Court, has been criticised for attending the start of the legal year in Hong Kong yesterday.
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Has there been any official response to this from FCDO or Foreign Sec that has gone under the radar?
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Ahead of Commons vote on the Trade Bill this week,
@ipacglobal
and
@CommonsBEIS
member
@Nus_Ghani
writes in the Telegraph about the genocide amendment
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