This idea that democracy is alien to Chinese culture? Look at Taiwan, one of Asia’s most successful, vibrant democracies, which has just completed another successful presidential election and transition.
The disgraceful prosecution of pro-democracy activists by Beijing’s occupation authority in Hong Kong give lie to any suggestion that ‘One Country, Two Systems’ remains in force.
Don’t stop talking about Hong Kong and the violation of the one state, two systems principle. Show support for Taiwan. Impose harsher sanctions against malign actors and make it harder for Government-backed businesses to integrate in the UK.
Rishi Sunak should fulfil his campaign pledge to ban Confucius Institutes – with primary legislation if necessary.
The Government needs to expand the BNO visa pathway, move Hong Kong students off the exorbitant international student fees regime, and keep up sanctions on Beijing.
Excluding many young pro-democracy activists, coupled with the prolonged waiting period for asylum seekers, paints a grim picture of incompetence and ignorance by officials overseeing the process.
The Foreign Secretary ought to say something to mark the crossing of a new red-line: the labelling of British citizens as criminal in Jimmy Lai’s sham trial.
The commercialisation of higher education has helped transform once elite centres of learning into remedial sectors for failing comprehensives, too ready to take authoritarian cash.
It is absurd to pretend a company with obvious links to the Chinese Communist Party does not pose a clear and present danger to national security.
Little surprise that, in the words of a Chinese diplomat, “the Liberal Party of Canada is becoming the only party that the PRC can support.”
James Cleverly should instead meet the Uyghur activists protesting outside his office today, and leave Erkin Tuniyaz out in the cold.
Under Blair, the party rejected its own traditions and signed up instead to the global, liberal economic order.
Our next prime minister must convert tough talk about the CCP and its abuses into sustained, serious action.
Miliband ducks questioning in the Commons, hides behind meaningless soundbites on the media, and has never, ever, published a forecast of what his radical plans will do to people’s energy bills.