Oral Evidence Oct. 24 2023
Inquiry: Implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for UK-EU relationsFound: This has been enormously to the benefit of China, India and many other countries which are happily
Found: Some civil society groups, such as Human Rights Watch, and groups including some Uyghur exiles from China
Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) strategic game of the world.As for the heavy hand in Hong Kong and the appalling persecution of the Uighurs - Speech Link
2: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) the Uighurs in Xinjiang or indeed in Tibet—matters it refers to as internal matters and on which it - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) What about the Uighurs? We should never be frightened of calling out those sorts of outrages. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) However, what is important, for example in the situation with the Uighurs, is that we need to broaden - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord True (CON - Life peer) China is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, the world’s second-largest economy - Speech Link
2: Lord True (CON - Life peer) If you look at the text, you will see that implicitly China and India committed to support a just and - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) My final point is on China. Was mention made of the persecution of the Uighurs? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Surely, for too long government policy towards China has favoured investment and trade at the expense - Speech Link
2: None , which both bemoan the woeful lack of a China strategy and seriousness from the Government over the - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) It is state sanctioned and widespread throughout China. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) and Tesco are doing, through the Cambridge spies, the absolute horror of what is being imposed on the Uighurs - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (LAB - Life peer) We know that the threats are not limited to China. - Speech Link
2: Lord Newby (LDEM - Life peer) From the genocide against the Uighurs to Hong Kong, and from Taiwan to interference in our democracy, - Speech Link
3: Lord True (CON - Life peer) The noble Baroness also said that we must have a serious response to China. - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party for, among other things, speaking out against the treatment of the Uighurs - Speech Link
Found: relation to its illegal occupation of Palestine, Russia in relation to its invasion of Ukraine, and China
Found: The stance it has taken against Russia and China on human rights, whilst long overd ue – is
Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) a patron of Hong Kong Watch and a vice chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Hong Kong and Uighurs - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) We now recognise that China has taken a very unfortunate turn. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) On the integrated review and a China strategy, I accept that there is no stand-alone China strategy but - Speech Link
Found: Some civil society groups, such as Human Rights Watch, and groups including some Uyghur exiles from China