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Will Italy's police communications run on Chinese tech? | Formiche
"High risk vendors" Huawei and ZTE technology could serve next generation communications systems for the Italian State Police and NATO despite known security risks.
formiche.net/2021/05/will-i…
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Next week the UK House of Commons will debate a motion calling for UK officials to decline invitations to attend the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @timloughton calls for UK diplomatic representation to be conditional on improved human rights in the Uyghur Region.
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#BREAKING: #IPAC calls on @WorldBank @IFC_org to withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars invested in companies using Uyghur forced labour.
There can be no excuse for ignorance or inaction. The World Bank must have no part in financing these abuses.
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
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#BREAKING: Australia to introduce Magnitsky-style human rights sanctions regime to target perpetrators of human rights abuses.
#IPAC 🇦🇺 members @SenPaterson @kimbakit @kevinandrewsmp have led a cross-party push for this legislation. twitter.com/SenPaterson/st…
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UK’s dependence on Chinese imports is ‘threat to national security’ | The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
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As Chinese investment into Ireland surges, Dublin tightens the rule book | @CNBC
The Irish PM says moves are to prevent “strategic assets falling into the hands of unfriendly foreign governments.”
cnbc.com/2020/10/21/chi…
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Today's announcement that the UK will be suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong was welcomed by #IPAC 🇬🇧 members in the House of Commons.
SNP MP @AlynSmith pressed for further action, with Magnitsky sanctions to be used against perpetrators of abuses in Xinjiang.
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#IPAC 🇬🇧 MPs @MPIainDS and @amcarmichaelMP raise Point of Order highlighting concern at the Chinese Ambassador being invited to Parliament while the Chinese government continues to sanction #IPAC and other MPs for their parliamentary work.
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UK Parliament to vote on declaration of genocide in Xinjiang province | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
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“It is a paradox that a state with a population of one billion chooses to intimidate a citizen of a tiny country instead of ending the illegal detention and torture of a million of its citizens"
#IPAC 🇱🇹co-chair @DSakaliene on being sanctioned by Beijing: baltictimes.com/china_slaps_sa…
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En tværpolitisk og stærk gruppe på fire medlemmer af Folketinget har tilsluttet sig #IPAC for at sikre en konstruktiv og kritisk holdning til Kina fra Danmarks side. Læs @Ammitzboell_K, @uffeelbaek, @naserkhaderdk og Karsten Hønge i @berlingske:
berlingske.dk/kommentarer/kl…
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"This is another example of the Chinese state denying genocide, despite it being glaringly obvious that the Chinese Communist Party are orchestrating the systematic eradication of the Uyghur."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @imranahmadkhan MP questions UK Minister for Asia Nigel Adams MP. twitter.com/imranahmadkhan…
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China builds advanced weapons systems with American technology | Washington Post
"...a prime example of how China is quietly harnessing civilian technologies for strategic military purposes — with the help of American technology"
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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Leaked papers link Xinjiang crackdown with China leadership | The Guardian
Speeches from Xi and other top officials cover security, population control and the need to punish the Uyghur population.
theguardian.com/world/2021/nov…
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Cambridge professor whose role was ‘funded by China’ cautioned against Uyghur debate | Open Democracy
Academic tells students that discussing China’s human rights record may not be ‘helpful to advancing mutual understanding’ opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
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"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
#IPAC 🇬🇧 member @Nus_Ghani MP speaks at a UK Parliament debate commemorating #HolocaustRemembranceDay citing concerns of alleged genocide against #Uyghurs raised by Board of Deputies of British Jews.
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China retaliates after US, EU and UK impose sanctions | Financial Times
Beijing imposes travel bans on several #IPAC parliamentarians and advisors after co-ordinated sanctions against treatment of Uyghurs.
ft.com/content/278716…
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‘Genocide games’: British MPs vote for diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics | Sydney Morning Herald
Motion led by #IPAC members calling for UK government representatives to decline invitations to the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics passes unanimously.
smh.com.au/world/europe/g…
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Response on behalf of French President @EmmanuelMacron to #IPAC 🇫🇷 co-chair Senator @AndreGattolin on calls for the G7 to address Uyghur forced labour in supply chains.
Strzoda: G7 "unambiguous" on criticism of Chinese government abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
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China’s ‘black site’ prison for dissidents is revealed | The Times
A young woman on the run with her fiancé, a Chinese dissident, says that she was held for weeks at a secret “black site” jail run by the Chinese embassy in Dubai.
thetimes.co.uk/article/china-…
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Snacks, books for prisoners spark Hong Kong security law arrests | Al Jazeera
Three students aged between 18 and 20 arrested for “subversion” over the group’s welfare programme for prisoners, with police seizing large quantities of sweets and books.
aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/21…
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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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New Zealand agreed to visa contractor at ‘behest’ of Beijing police | The Globe and Mail
#IPAC 🇳🇿 co-chair Simon O'Connor MP:
"Serious answers are now needed as to why demands by an organisation with links to the Public Security Bureau were accepted."
theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…
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