This is an extremely serious case - a major escalation in Beijing’s overseas influence operations. There are obviously questions to answer, and a full public inquiry should follow, together with major improvement in security offered to MPs who have bravely confronted Beijing.
Worth noting: this is a man who consistently briefed against @ipacglobal and its members, and who I believe subverted free parliamentary debate by downplaying the behaviour of the CCP. He worked to divide the movement - a typical CCP tactic - and he had success.
Problem with the Integrated Review section on 🇨🇳 isn’t the language (which has much to recommend it).
There’s some nice sounding stuff in there eg:
The problem is that there isn’t much we can elevate to what Robert Kennedy called the “dignity of policy”.
Let’s dig a bit.
The IR talks about ‘creation of dependencies’ (an explicit aim of the CCP). In 2020 @dominicraab commissioned Project Defend to address dependency. It was quietly dropped in 2022. Nobody knows why. The IR doesn’t reinstate it, doesn’t even hint towards it. export.org.uk/news/509100/Pr…
This is the right outcome but the wrong route to it. It ought to have been the UK taking action by labelling these thugs persona non grata, not merely asking China to act.
They assaulted someone in broad daylight and dragged them into the Consulate! 🤬
#BREAKING Human Rights chief @mbachelet “unable” to assess #Uyghur human rights abuses, frames them in the context of “anti-terrorism” and “de radicalisation” measures (which they aren’t).
Wow. It’s very clear which questions have been provided to @mbachelet in advance. She is reading from a script in response to PRC state media questions. Shocking.
In his introduction, Sir Geoffrey Nice reveals that two advisory lawyers and one witness withdrew from the Tribunal as a result of sanctions placed upon the Tribunal by the PRC.
-8000 hours of analysis already undertaken.
-Tribunal only considering crimes against humanity and genocide.
-PRC and many other governments invited to provide evidence. All declined, except UK which merely pointed the Tribunal to evidence in the public domain.