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Luke de Pulford
@lukedepulford
Co-Founder, Executive Director: Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. Personal account. DMs open.
Mar 17 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
I've kept a 5-year silence about 🇬🇧 scientific establishment and COVID-19 origins.

I now find the conclusion unavoidable that, with @WHO and others, there was a concerted effort to suppress the lab-leak theory to deflect attention from Beijing.

🧵

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… 1. Sir Jeremy Farrar, key figure in the scientific community's response to C-19, was worried about China being blamed for the virus. Discussions about the geopolitical implications of C-19 origins were ongoing between scientists at the time.

In his own words: Image
Jan 10 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
As the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP touches down in Beijing, two lines are being used:

1️⃣ We need the money
2️⃣ We need China to defeat climate change

I can’t believe how little scrutiny these lines have received.

So, first: is China going to rescue the UK economy? 🧵 Image Let’s look at the evidence. The UK consistently runs a trade deficit with China (around 30-40 bn). We run a very slight (much smaller) surplus in services. @GovUK figures:
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Dec 23, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Musk is on a collision course with the 🇺🇸 Legislative Branch, and much of the incoming Trump admin over China.

Musk on Taiwan:

“…like Haiwaii, an integral part of China which is arbitrarily not a part of China” The Hill just reported allegations from Democrats that Musk killed a bipartisan effort to screen US investments into China. thehill.com/business/50517…Image
Sep 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
#BREAKING BRITISH MAN ARRESTED UNDER THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT ON SUSPICION OF ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN THE UK PARLIAMENT.

Breathtaking @cazjwheeler scoop:

thetimes.co.uk/article/britis… 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.
Mar 13, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
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.
Dec 17, 2022 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
China and @elonmusk: a thread Tesla posted over 5bn in revenue from China in Q3 of 2022 alone. China represents over 20% of Tesla’s turnover.

But Musk’s interests in China aren’t just about now…

seekingalpha.com/news/3894251-t…
Dec 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
‼️#BREAKING the Chinese Consul General who assaulted #BobChan has returned to China together with other diplomats.

Thank you @MPIainDS @Afzal4Gorton @aliciakearns + others Politico report here:
May 28, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
#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.
Jun 4, 2021 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
The @TribunalUyghur is starting soon. 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.
Jun 3, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
#TiananmenSquare

Never forget. 🕯

Thread of some of the reports from 4th and 5th June, 1989. First, @MSNBC The seminal Kate Adie @BBCNews report:
Apr 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Absolutely disgraceful. Police shut down Good Friday service in Polish Church, Balham yesterday.

“I appreciate that it is Good Friday, and you’d like to worship, but this gathering is unlawful” Find me a scene that better expresses the worst aspects of modern Britain that a policeman traipsing onto the Sanctuary on the most solemn day of the Christian year threatening people with fines for going to church a day after zero COVID deaths were reported in London.
Mar 3, 2020 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Some actually useful COVID-19 advice from James Robb, MD FCAP one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses. This is being circulated by NHS doctors. I found the 2nd section on what to stock useful (so I’m sharing). 1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.
2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove.
Feb 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Wow. Last Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, not mincing his words tonight.

Here he is on China’s claim that the Sino-British Joint Declaration is a “historic document”.

#StandwithHK
#AshdownMemorialLecture On police violence:

“Ms. Lam’s government, wearing Beijing’s handcuffs, has put the police service in a position where with clearly irresponsible leadership it has fallen so far below its former standards.”