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CPTPP should let the U.K. and Taiwan accede together. Now THAT would be a statement. 🇹🇼🇬🇧 twitter.com/SebastianEPayn…
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Proud to serve on @CPHumanRights and bloody proud of this headline. Qudos to @benedictrogers for his tireless work on behalf of those who need help. Thanks @larisamlbrown for this report.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
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Jimmy Lai is a British citizen.
Genuinely shameful that @GOVUK @FCDOGovUK have nothing to say.
Whereas Biden’s Whitehouse 👇 twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/…
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BREAKING: #GenocideAmendment with @neill_bob amendment incorporated passes the @UKHouseofLords 367 214 another huge majority of 153
It's the only amendment going to @HouseofCommons
Meanwhile 👇
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#BREAK plans to build a new Chinese mega-Embassy on the site of the Royal Mint near the Tower of London have been UNANIMOUSLY REJECTED. twitter.com/RoyalMintEstat…
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Any survivor of abuse will see through this awful video.
But for media struggling to get a read, I recommend the “Scripted and Staged” section in @SafeguardDefend piece on forced confessions safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/new-re… h/t @Peterinexile
#FreePengShuai
twitter.com/RaducanuIN/sta…
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Thanks, Xi Jinping.
A reminder that this study concludes that if non-pharmaceutical interventions had been deployed three weeks earlier by China (ie not covered up) spread could have been reduced by 95%
medrxiv.org/content/10.110… twitter.com/bbclaurak/stat…
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Very good letter. Hope @DominicRaab is listening. I’ve been humbled by the energy and sheer professionalism of the young people campaigning for the #GenocideAmendment twitter.com/YetAgainUK/sta…
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This event looked absolutely beautiful. Thank you @krishk
We need many more! Welcome, friends. twitter.com/carmenkamanlau…
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I’ve often been contacted on here by political dissidents in risky situations who felt able to reach out because they knew this account was…actually me. Blue tick gone now and with it their confidence. Thanks, Elon
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The #IntegratedReview makes the right noises but is ultimately incoherent re: #China. You can’t categorise a state as a strategic threat AND plan to invest more in it. Just means you reward the threat. Reminiscent of our skewed approach to Magnitsky sanctions: #anyonebutChina twitter.com/MrHarryCole/st…
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Key takeaways:
- COVID used as an excuse.
- Beijing’s “anti-terrorism” narrative adopted (😦)
- Admission of Potemkin style prison visit.
- No engagement with #XinjiangPoliceFiles
Hard to see @antonioguterres can reappoint her in September. A catastrophic dereliction of duty.
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Hidden in @CommonsForeign (v good) report on #Uyghurs is this bombshell: 👏
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Iain Duncan Smith says he is under 'active threat' from China | Daily Mail Online dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
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Scratching my head at @DominicRaab today
👉Said we "shouldn't outsource" genocide judgment to the courts
👉But said only judges can rule on genocide
This is not consistent.
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No, the BN(O) scheme isn’t an accountability measure.
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Foreign Minister of Taiwan Joseph Wu in answer to @DSakaliene:
“China is trying to destroy democracy in Taiwan”
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Loved catching up with former @ipacglobal Co-Chair, now Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania @Adomenas at the Warsaw Security Forum.
Our last meeting was in #HongKong 2019. Hard to believe how much things have changed. 🇬🇧🇱🇹🇭🇰
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This is what every UK passport says.
Sadly doesn’t apply to #JimmyLai, 150,000+ BN(O) visa holders, or their children, who will be considered “Chinese” for the purposes of PRC law even if they were born here.
The UK just accepts 🇨🇳’s naked ethno-nationalism. Has to change.
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Do we think it likely that a government which describes mass internment, forced sterilisation, family separation, brainwashing, and rape as “human rights protection” will honour its promise to “move towards” ratifying forced labour treaties, @vonderleyen? twitter.com/ChinaMissionGv…
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Lol the BN(O) scheme wouldn’t even have happened without HKW. 🤡 twitter.com/ReginaIplau/st…
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#BREAK
@FCDOGovUK Minister @Jesse_Norman
“Extremely concerned” about beating of #HKBob
Foreign Secretary @JamesCleverly has summoned Chinese Ambassador to demand an explanation for behaviour of consulate staff. Investigation underway.
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#Breaking UK Government intends to prevent a vote on the #GenocideAmendment AGAIN.
They will instead re-table @neill_bob wrecking amendment which excludes #Uyghurs
From a Government letter to all MPs.
Really poor.
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