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#BREAKING: Chinese government issues sanctions on UK targets in retaliation for action on Uyghur abuses.
Those hit include #IPAC 🇬🇧 members @MPIainDS, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Lord @DavidAltonHL, @Nus_Ghani MP and @timloughton MP.
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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.
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"This is brazen and shameful thuggery - the actions of cowards who fear the printed word and the glare of media scrutiny."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL comments on raid of Apple Daily newspaper and arrests of journalists in Hong Kong.
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“It is our moral obligation to narrow the gap between our economic aspirations and our values. Otherwise we will become morally co-responsible for the CCP’s abuses.”
#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @MiriamMLex MEP EU-China #CAI investment deal human rights concerns.
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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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"Even in the UK I don’t feel safe from the pernicious reach of the Chinese state."
#IPAC advisor @MahmutRahima on Chinese government attempts to harass and intimidate Uyghurs and diasporic communities abroad.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 co-chair @MPIainDS called on the UK government to boycott the Olympics, describing China as “dictatorial, aggressive and intolerant”.
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EU deal cements China’s advantage in media war | Politico
Beijing has closed its market to European media investors, while EU keeps doors open to Chinese propagandists.
Featuring comment from #IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti MEP.
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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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#IPAC 🇮🇹 co-chairs Sen. @LucioMalan and Sen. @rampi speak to Deutsche Welle on China's influence in Europe.
"When you make an economic agreement with a state that doesn't respect human rights, you are dealing with human rights."
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BREAKING: #IPAC satellite in Japan agrees text for Magnitsky legislation, which #JPAC plans to introduce to the floor as soon as possible. #StandTogether twitter.com/Japan_pac/stat…
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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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Johnson faces Commons defeat as rebels stand against China’s ‘genocide’ | Sunday Times
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL all-party amendment to the Trade Bill will be debated in the UK Parliament this week.
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Holocaust survivors urge Boris Johnson to stand up for Uighurs as genocide law fight resumes | Politico
#GenocideAmendment to the UK Trade Bill led by #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL returns to the House of Lords today.
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New Zealand joins #IPAC with Co-Chairs Simon O'Connor MP and Louisa Wall MP.
All Five Eyes alliance nations are now represented within IPAC.
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"No one can seriously believe that the Chinese Communist Party is about to refer itself to the International Criminal Court for examination of potential genocide."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @DavidAltonHL explains why the all-party #GenocideAmendment to the UK Trade Bill is needed.
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#IPAC 🇺🇸 co-chair @SenatorMenendez announces major bi-partisan China legislation.
The Bill calls for the US to take a leading role in international organizations and for a values driven approach to abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 members lead calls for trade deals to be conditional on legal determinations of genocide claims, with reference to abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 members @YasminQureshiMP and @amcarmichaelMP call for use of Magnitsky sanctions for those those responsible for the mass atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in China.
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“All five categories of genocide behaviour, according to the Genocide Convention, are already in play in Xinjiang province."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @RhonddaBryant MP urges the British Olympics Association to call for a #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics venue change.
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EU moves closer to sanctions for human rights violations in 6 countries | Politico
#IPAC 🇪🇺 MEPs have repeatedly called on the EU to implement sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
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"We cannot allow the long arm of the Chinese state to reach into the heart of our European democracy."
#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @bueti backs calls for 10 EU Member States to terminate extradition agreements with China and Hong Kong to protect exiles in Europe.
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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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