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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani: UK businesses "must wake up" to China's Uighur cotton slaves.
Further coverage of #IPAC advisor @adrianzenz report on forced labour in the Xinjiang cotton industry.
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#IPAC 🇮🇹 members ask the Italian government to ensure the EU-China Common Agreement on Investment does not open the door for strategic assets to be bought by companies under the control of the Chinese state.
@bianchimatteo79 @PaoloFormentin1 @AlexBazzaro
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti labels today's meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels "a disappointment before it is over".
A discussion on Hong Kong was removed from the agenda despite last week's European Parliament resolution condemning Beijing's crackdown in the city. twitter.com/bueti/status/1…
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"while Beijing might be able to knock us off the internet for a few hours – nothing will stop our members standing up for the Uyghurs, Hongkongers, and everyone else oppressed by Xi’s regime”
#IPAC comment after cyber-attack leads to website outage.
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#IPAC 🇺🇸 co-chairs @SenRubioPress and @SenatorMenendez introduce a bi-partisan resolution to designate abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang as genocide.
The resolution demands China be held accountable under the UN Genocide Convention.
Full text below 👇
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#BREAKING Sunday Times finds that @HSBC has continued to buy shares in subsidiaries of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) *AFTER* the XPCC was sanctioned by @USTreasury in 2020. Featuring comment from #IPAC members 👇
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MPs push for parliamentary probe into CCP influence at Australian universities.
Led by #IPAC 🇦🇺 members @kimbakit and @SenPaterson
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Massive news!! Congrats James and all who worked so hard to make this happen. Including helpful pressure from his #IPAC Co-Chair @kimbakit #Strongertogether @Billbrowder twitter.com/SenPaterson/st…
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"How can we sign an agreement with China, when it has blatantly violated the Sino-British Joint Declaration guaranteeing the preservation of Hong Kong's rights and freedoms?"
#IPAC 🇮🇹 Co-Chair @LucioMalan writes on the EU-China #CAI investment deal.
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Britain must not be a safe haven for businesses profiting from Uyghur forced labour | #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani for PoliticsHome.
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 member @EnginEroglu_FW MEP submits an Urgency Resolution to the European Parliament on the deteriorating human rights situation in Xinjiang and widespread forced labour.
If accepted, the topic will be debated at the European Parliament's plenary next week. twitter.com/EnginEroglu_FW…
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"If the UK does not stand up for victims of genocide, then I want to know what it will ever stand up for again."
#IPAC co-chair @MPIainDS writes in the @SundayGuardian
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Many #IPAC members active in the @HouseofCommons today.
First, Former Defence Secretary @LiamFox pushes @DominicRaab on #IPAC's core goal on #HongKong - bringing forward plans to reduce strategic dependency.
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Many #IPAC members active in the @HouseofCommons today.
First, Former Defence Secretary @LiamFox pushes @DominicRaab on #IPAC's core goal on #HongKong - bringing forward plans to reduce strategic dependency.
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 member @EnginEroglu_FW leads open letter to Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam following the forced closure of Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily.
The signatories condemn the attacks on press freedoms in the city and call for the release of arrested journalists.
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Cross party Italian parliamentarians stand in solidarity with Hong Kong's pan democratic legislators and demand government action to hold China to account.
Signed by #IPAC 🇮🇹 members @rampi @LucioMalan @bobogiac @PaoloFormentin1 @EnricoBorghi1
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#IPAC 🇮🇹 member @PaoloFormentin1 calls on Prime Minister Mario Draghi to heighten Italy's coordination with the US, UK and other democratic allies on Hong Kong.
Formentini described the forced closure of Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily as "an attack on democracy everywhere."
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5⃣ Germany 🇩🇪
#IPAC members signed a joint letter to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The letter demanded Germany lead Europe's response to China's undermining of the international rules based order.
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European lawmaker warns Europe to talk the truth about Beijing’s aggression | Asia News
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti.
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#BREAKING: French National Assembly votes to recognise Uyghurs as victims of Genocide.
France joins the 🇺🇸 and parliaments of 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇱🇱🇹 in declaring a Genocide taking place in the Uyghur Region.
The motion was co-sponsored by #IPAC 🇫🇷 member @DumasFrederique.
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#IPAC 🇩🇪 member and Chair of the Bundestag Human Rights Committee @GydeJ MdB calls for the EU's new human rights sanctions regime to be used against those who have repressed political freedoms in Hong Kong.
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Motion led by #IPAC 🇩🇪 member @GydeJ MdB calls for Germany and the EU to respond to China's repression in Hong Kong by offering refuge to fleeing Hong Kongers and renegotiating the EU-China #CAI deal to take into account forced labour and human rights concerns. twitter.com/GydeJ/status/1…
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Concerns around the impact of China's National Intelligence Law on UK telecommunications raised by #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP.
Chinese firms operating in the UK would be obliged to secretly pass on sensitive data to intelligence services if requested by the Chinese state.
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Last night 16 #IPAC Co-Chairs met, including @GarnettGenuis and @IrwinCotler to discuss the so-called National Security Law and extradition to #HongKong
It was unanimously agreed that there must be NO EXTRADITION.
Today: good news from Canada.
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