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@HSBC @IoWBobSeely #IPAC member @RhonddaBryant MP:
"@HSBC chooses which laws to obey... quite a lot of my constituents might think you choose to adopt a moral stance when it suits you, but not when it doesn't."
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 MPs questioned @HSBC representatives over the bank's freezing of accounts belonging to Hong Kong pro-democracy activists.
IPAC member @IoWBobSeely MP to HSBC: "Do you understand the difference between being ethical and being legal?"
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Siobhain_Mc MP labels @HSBC "a powerful monetary prop of the draconian forces that wish to crush democracy" after the freezing Hong Kong activists' bank accounts.
McDonagh called for HSBC to unfreeze @tedhuichifung's accounts in a letter to the Financial Times. twitter.com/BeijingToBrit/…
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"Donald Trump and Joe Biden don't agree on much but both of their administrations have now recognised that Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China are being subject to ongoing genocide."
#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP urges Canada to declare a 'genocide' against Uyghurs. twitter.com/GarnettGenuis/…
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"How does the CAI protect the EU and its member states from hostile economic actions by China, similar to those targeted at Australia?"
#IPAC 🇪🇺 member @AnnaFotyga_PE MEP questions EU High Representative @JosepBorrellF on EU-China #CAI investment deal.
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#IPAC advisors @AMFChina @MareikeOhlberg lead over 100 experts and academics in opposing the EU-China #CAI investment deal.
The statement claims CAI "entrenches Europe's existing strategic dependency on China and runs counter to Europe's core values."
spiegel.de/international/…
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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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#IPAC 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 member @AnnaFotyga_PE MEP leads European Parliament support for deepening economic and political relationship with Taiwan 🇹🇼, resulting in the first reference to the "Republic of China" in an EU document. twitter.com/AnnaFotyga_PE/…
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#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair @GarnettGenuis MP leads the Opposition in calling for the Canadian government to formally label the Chinese government's persecution of #Uyghurs a genocide.
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Claims that the EU is exercising 'strategic autonomy' amount to "shooting yourself in the foot autonomously".
#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti MEP on how the EU-China #CAI investment deal will increase Europe's strategic dependency on China.
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4099447
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"Ratification of the agreement while mounting evidence documents forced labour and other human rights abuses in Xinjiang would be a major propaganda victory for the Chinese government."
#IPAC 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 MEP @EnginEroglu_FW on EU-China #CAI investment deal.
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#IPAC 🇧🇪 co-chairs @ElsVanHoofcdenv @SamuelCogolati led questioning of Foreign Minister @Sophie_Wilmes on EU-China #CAI investment deal.
Concerns include China's access to EU energy and telecommunications markets and China's failure to ratify ILO conventions on forced labour.
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Resolution on Hong Kong co-authored by #IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @MiriamMLex passes European Parliament.
The resolution states that the EU's rush to conclude EU-China #CAI investment deal risks "undermining its credibility as a global human rights actor."
theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…
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Interview with #IPAC🇨🇭co-chair @FabianMolinaNR in the Luzerner Zeitung.
Molina notes how the common desire to defend democracy and the rule of law against the Chinese Communist Party has united parliamentarians across borders and across party lines.
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Australian Ambassador to France thanks #IPAC 🇫🇷 co-chairs @AndreGattolin and @iflorennes92 for their #SolidarityWithAustralia 🇦🇺
Last month IPAC members from nine parliaments called on their governments to stand with Australia against intimidation from the Chinese government.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 MPs announce intention to bring revised #GenocideAmendment to UK Trade Bill, aiming to allow UK courts to judge genocide cases and hold China accountable for Xinjiang abuses.
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#IPAC 🇨🇦 co-chair Hon. @IrwinCotler labels IPAC a "game changer" in slowing the Chinese government's growing economic and political influence globally, calls for inter-governmental alliance to mirror IPAC.
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 members @MiriamMLex @bueti @ViolavonCramon lead cross-party group of MEPs concerned with increasing Chinese influence in Serbia.
The MEPs identified a lack of transparency and bypassing of European environmental standards as key issues.
emerging-europe.com/news/meps-conc…
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Coverage of #IPAC UK cross-party efforts to allow domestic courts to consider alleged genocide against #Uyghurs perpetrated by the Chinese state.
smh.com.au/world/asia/us-…
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.@LauraHarth covers #IPAC UK and US efforts towards genocide determination on abuse of Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in China.
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US rules that China has committed genocide in its repression of Uyghurs.
The judgement comes after #IPAC 🇺🇸 co-chair @SenRubioPress led bi-partisan efforts last month requiring the US Secretary of State to make a determination on the issue.
Full story: bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-… twitter.com/ipacglobal/sta…
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“The fight does not end here. We will continue to do all we can to ensure that Uighurs and other victims of alleged genocide have a route to justice through UK courts.”
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL on efforts to bring #GenocideAmendment to Trade Bill.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…
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EU-China investment deal lacks teeth on forced labour but could still be derailed | Taiwan News
#IPAC co-chairs Sen. @AndreGattolin 🇫🇷 and @bueti MEP 🇪🇺🇩🇪 call criticise signing of EU-China #CAI deal in light of China's "blatant human rights violations".
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4100036