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Germany frets over its corporate dependency on China | Financial Times
"Chinese commercial retaliation in Europe is rare. But the possibility has created “pre-emptive obedience” in the boardrooms and chancelleries of Europe."
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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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Beijing’s top office in Hong Kong ratchets up attack on Bar Association chief Paul Harris, denouncing him as an ‘anti-China politician’ | SCMP
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#IPAC 🇪🇺 co-chair @MiriamMLex highlights Beijing's coercive diplomacy and calls for reduction in EU's strategic dependency on P.R. China.
Full interview with @ETtodaytw: youtube.com/watch?v=bS7asr…
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HSBC boss Mark Tucker accused of attack on democracy over Hong Kong | The Times
#IPAC members @MPIainDS 🇬🇧 and @uffeelbaek 🇩🇰 call on @HSBC to release frozen assets of pro-democracy activists and explain reports of refusal to recognise #BNO passports.
thetimes.co.uk/article/hsbc-b…
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Kosovo announces diplomatic boycott of #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics | Alsat
Growing global momentum behind #IPAC call for #NoRightsNoShow
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"While the Uighurs are forcibly sterilised, their children brainwashed and tens of thousands enslaved, the UK is bending over backwards to secure more Chinese trade."
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PM Boris Johnson’s China policy riddled with contradictions | Sunday Guardian
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @RhonddaBryant
MP writes on the UK government's #IntegratedReview strategy paper.
sundayguardianlive.com/world/integrat… via @SundayGuardian
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Britain should condemn China's attack on free press | The Times
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.@Billbrowder joins IPAC co-chairs and guests to launch the global Magnitsky Campaign.
Governments around the globe are being asked to implement targeted sanction programmes against the gravest human rights abusers.
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Hong Kong passes immigration bill, raising alarm over 'exit bans' | Reuters
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"As allegations of human rights violations in Xinjiang mount, with a growing number of Western lawmakers accusing China of genocide, Beijing is focusing on discrediting the female Uighur witnesses behind recent reports of abuse."
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BREAKING: Italy's Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously adopts a motion issuing the "strongest possible condemnation" of human rights abuses in the Uyghur region.
The motion led by #IPAC 🇮🇹 members named abuses including forced sterilization, mass internment and forced labour. twitter.com/LauraHarth/sta…
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Australian MPs condemn China's Hong Kong crackdown.
#IPAC 🇦🇺 co-chair @kimbakit: "Australia must be a strong voice in standing up for the international order, and for the democratic values that we hold so dear, as do the people of Hong Kong."
theage.com.au/world/asia/aus…
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LIVE: #IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani moves #UyghurGenocide motion:
“That this House believes that Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are suffering Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.”
Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0a…
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#BREAKING UK House of Lords votes to accept amendment proposed by #IPAC members @DavidAltonHL and Baroness Kennedy.
The amendment revokes trade deals with states perpetrating genocide, as judged by the UK High Court.
The amendment will now proceed to be debated in the Commons.
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Urging people to spoil or cast blank ballots in elections to become a crime in Hong Kong | HKFP
hongkongfp.com/2021/04/13/jus…
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#IPAC 🇯🇵 co-chairs Rep. @ShioriYamao and Rep. Gen Nakatani lead efforts to propose Magnitsky-style human rights sanctions legislation before the end of the parliamentary term.
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#BREAKING: #IPAC co-chairs call on @UNHumanRights Chief @mbachelet to release long awaited report on violations against Uyghurs, before the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
As the world’s attention turns towards Beijing, the PRC government must be held to account for its actions.
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The PRC government is carrying out a global campaign of intimidation against all who dare criticise its authoritarian rule.
Legislators from 20+ countries have signed the #IPAC pledge to advocate on behalf of those facing extradition to the PRC.
#DoNotExtradite
#StandTogether
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Holocaust Memorial Day: Jewish figures condemn Uighur persecution | Al Jazeera
Prominent British Jews use #HolocaustMemorialDay to warn that China’s treatment of its minority Uighur population has chilling echoes of past genocides.
aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/27…
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