cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11898205
UK: “Successful engagement with China must always be framed by an understanding that China is an inherently hostile authoritarian state that does not share our values”, report says
“The PRC [People’s Republic of China] is not China, nor the custodian of Chinese history, culture or values. What it promotes, whether on UK universities campuses through Confucius Institutes, through “art and cultural” engagement, through social media and through personal exchange, is political narrative,” a report published by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac), an international group of China experts, says.
For many years UK China policy has been ‘beset by incoherence,’ with different departments pursuing mutually contradictory approaches. As a result, Ipac states, past engagement with Beijing has often “exposed the UK to the risks of interference without delivering the opportunities promised.”
Although British expertise exists, it is often siloed and “not translated into capability”, says Ipac, pointing to budget cuts as an additional problem.
The organization’s report says that engagement with China ‘must rise above party politics.’
‘The elected government should work with other parties in Parliament to determine the UK’s long-term relationship with China. We need sustained cross-party dialogue, and a shared commitment to putting the UK’s long-term interests first. Whatever our political differences, we should recognise that the opportunities and risks presented by China demand a united and considered national response.’
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Ipac counts almost 50 MPs among its members, including from Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National party, the Greens and Reform.
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Like the colonialism of the One China policy and their genocide of the uyghurs?
I am not saying that China is not doing evil things and I oppose China coercion to take Taiwan back. There are definitely war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs but the intent to destroy a group fully or in part was never proven.
Nobody is more hypocritical than the west though and nobody lie more about respecting human rights than the west , the west destabilization of the world is a lot worse than China. The former western colonial powers turned into neo colonialism, most of the conflicts in africa are fueled by the west weaponry, the west also destroyed Libya despite many of the western leaders having good relation with Gaddafi before , they fully support israel colonial ambition then claim to oppose it by doing very performative actions like banning the settler products with no verification , Israel can simply reroute to Israel than claim it is not coming from the west bank. Even related to china, you don’t hear about china support for the Rohingya genocide, you can hear about the Tiananmen Square protests but you don’t hear about multiples other crackdown on protests like the 1989 Lhasa martial law in Tibet or the 1997 Yining crackdown in Xinjiang that the west turned a blind eye because it happened before China became an economical threat to the west hegemony