Peers Say £40 Billion Trade Deficit With CCP Regime Creates Dependency & Risks Resilience. And Want To Know Whether Cotton Imports Are Being Tested To See If They Were Made By Slave Labour In Xinjiang Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, what does the noble...
https://youtu.be/ca5GQduSrZc Speech given in China Debate: October 20th. I declare my interests as VC of the All-Party Groups on Uyghurs and Hong Kong. I am a Patron of Hong Kong Watch and a member of the Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China. Notwithstanding...
In Parliament Lord Alton highlighted betrayal of the national interest, by allowing the UK's security, academia, technology, and political systems to be interfered with by the Chinese Communist Party. Look through the lens of Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Wuhan, or...
Rt Hon. Amanda Milling MPMinister for Asia and the Middle EastKing Charles Street LondonSW1A 2AH Dear Lord Alton Thank you for your correspondence of 4 May about the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ proposed visit to Xinjiang. We have always been clear the High...
Why the NHS needs to stop buying products made by Uyghur slave labour in the CCP’s Genocide State of Xinjiang - House of Lords Speech January 31st 2022 https://youtu.be/PLo2nzHqD7w Lord Alton of Liverpool(CB) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to support the noble Lord,...
International Relations and Defence Committee Wednesday 27 October 2021 I asked Ben Wallace MP, the Defence Secretary questions today about Genocide in Xinjiang, the destruction of democracy in Hong Kong and the continuing CCP threat to the 23 million people in...
Today I asked whether the Government had taken note of the all party amendment passed on Tuesday night urging more concerted action in dealing with companies and countries banned in jurisdictions of our closest allies and tainted by everything from genocide to slave...
U.K. says “Reports that the hair of Uyghur and other minority women detained in prisons and “political re-education camps” is being used for profit is deeply disturbing, and such practices are unacceptable. No business, whether in the UK or abroad, should profit from...
There’s an old Uyghur saying “ A man cannot be blamed for not knowing, but he can be blamed for not asking .” Words I quoted tonight at the opening of the World Uyghur Conference’s London Office. As the CCP try to silence the Independent Uyghur Tribunal we must stand...
Book to read: “The Order Of The Day” by Eric Vuillard. The corporations which benefited from the Reich’s concentration camps - and the politicians - didn’t give a tinker’s damn about incarcerated Jews, or to the annexation of Austria. Chilling parallels with Uyghur...
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide - Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...