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Propaganda made in China. Italy at a crossroads | Formiche
@LauraHarth uncovers deep links between Italian news outlets and Chinese Communist Party controlled state media.
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"The signing of the EU-China #CAI Investment Treaty as Europe struggles to deal with the economic fallout of COVID-19, risks even more strategic industries and infrastructure falling into the hands of Chinese state-owned enterprises."
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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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Hong Kong court convicts Jimmy Lai and other pro-democracy activists over 2019 protest
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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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#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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Jimmy Lai: The Hong Kong billionaire's last interview as a free man | BBC
The owner of Hong Kong’s last opposition newspaper speaks out before being jailed for 12 months for participating in a peaceful protest in 2019.
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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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Apple Daily could shut ‘in days’ after Hong Kong asset freeze | Al Jazeera
Hong Kong authorities have used the National Security Law imposed by China to freeze the company’s assets and arrest the paper’s editor and four directors.
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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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National security law: Hong Kong authorities freeze assets of Apple Daily media tycoon Jimmy Lai | Hong Kong Free Press
Lai is currently serving a jail term over a peaceful, unauthorised protest in 2019.
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"A common threat requires a united international response. We cannot let our political differences split our response to China’s assertive authoritarianism."
🇮🇪 Senators @barrymward
@malcolmbyrne write on the launch of #IPAC in Ireland's Oireachtas.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP highlights reports of forced sterilisation and birth suppression among Uyghur women and calls for the UK government to back independent tribunals investigating atrocities in Xinjiang. twitter.com/LBC/status/131…
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Regrettable targeting of #IPAC’s advisors. It will not be lost on observers that this attack on @adrianzenz fails to address his actual research, which was based on publicly available government data.
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Hong Kong activists plead guilty but say ‘history will absolve us’ | Guardian theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
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