After Australia called for an inquiry into the pandemic, Beijing lashed out with a series of trade reprisals. Inside the government of Scott Morrison, discussions about China now revolve around safeguarding national sovereignty https://t.co/IJsL0Zk6yc by @KirstyLNeedham
We should all be horrified at the treatment of the #Uyghur people in Xinjiang. When the world is presented with such overwhelming evidence of gross human rights abuses, nobody can turn a blind eye
Am joining colleagues writing to Ambassador Liu Xiaoming
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The DCS implementation will be a space to watch as we know China’s past technological breakthroughs are often the result of IP theft and other nefarious means. Can Beijing innovate without stealing?
Hong Kong police arrested dozens of people including key activists as protests again flared up on city streets Sunday.
A total of 270 people were arrested for illegal assembly as of 9 p.m. local time.
https://t.co/aeUj9MgrFM
Thousands of police officers filled the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to stop a protest over the postponement of legislative elections and China’s imposition of a national security law that gives the authorities sweeping new powers to pursue critics. https://t.co/PvCKw1HLkS
#HongKong authorities using new security law and pandemic rules to make sure people don't take to the streets, according to @ClaudiaMCMo, after elections were postponed due to #pandemic. @bevvo14#TheWorld
A 12-year-old girl was pinned to the ground by police during fresh pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
A video of the incident is being held up as evidence by campaigners of further use of unnecessary force by the territory’s police https://t.co/fmonUUnWlv
True face of CCP’s so-called National Security Law
Grotesquely, not only was Jimmy Lai arrested, but his sons
Lai: "I’ve feared...the CCP would grow tired not only of HK’s free press but also of its free people. That day has come”
Lai is UK Citizen - Ministers must raise case
Another blow to the pro-democratic forces in #Hongkong. With the national security law, Beijing has killed many freedoms, now also press freedom. The EU must be firm and act. https://t.co/tsFzZuDPZb
This appalling abuse of civil liberties should push our British government to apply #Magnitsky sanctions against those Chinese Communist Party officials who are pursuing this path of oppression https://t.co/nolqymBcwm
B. R.: “To arrest one of the most moderate, peaceful and internationally respected voices for democracy in Hong Kong...sends the message that no one is safe in Hong Kong unless they stay completely silent and do exactly as Xi Jinping’s brutal regime says.” https://t.co/sJ6cHt9GBn