Extracts from report stage (Lords) of the Telecommunications
Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill Baroness Falkner of
Margravine (Non-Afl):...As we enter a harsher state of
international relations, the display of Chinese power, some would
say assertiveness, poses choices for the rest of us—those who are
middle-ranking powers, be they Germany, France or even India—as we
will have to confront it in the years ahead. The choices will be
around values, economics and the rule of...Request free trial
Extracts from report
stage (Lords) of the Telecommunications Infrastructure
(Leasehold Property) Bill
(Non-Afl):...As we enter a harsher state
of international relations, the display of Chinese power, some
would say assertiveness, poses choices for the rest of us—those who
are middle-ranking powers, be they Germany, France or even
India—as we will have to confront it in the years
ahead. The choices will be around values, economics and the rule of
law...
(UUP) [V]:...I am not
anti-Chinese. I have great admiration for what they have done. I am
aware of the privations that they suffered during World War II, for
example. The current regime has got so powerful largely because we
in the West exported our manufacturing capacity to China, but it
now poses a threat to many of its neighbours. There are the
situations on the border with India and
in the South China Sea. It is creating island bases for its
military. A whole range of things is happening...
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Extract from urgent
question (Commons) on Xinjiang: Uyghurs
(Chingford and Woodford Green) (Con):...I ask the
Foreign Secretary to go to the UN and call for an independent
inquiry, but, sadly, I also recognise that the ways to deal with
this through the UN will almost certainly be blocked by China.
Given that likelihood, will my hon. Friend at least get the UK to
make its own legal determination after weighing up this new
evidence? Of course the world wants to deal with China, but we
cannot continue with business as usual while this sort of blatant
activity continues. Furthermore, given the Chinese Government’s
appalling record on human rights, their attack on freedoms in Hong
Kong, their bullying behaviour in border disputes from the South
China seas to India their blatant
breaching of the rules-based order governing the free market and
their delayed declaration on covid-19, will the Government now
initiate an internal review of the UK’s dependence on China, with a
view to significantly reducing that dependence, and call on the
free world to come together to ensure that this growing threat from
China is dealt with together before, as history teaches us, it is
too late?
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