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EU threatens to freeze huge investment deal with China Sign In SAMUEL PETREQUIN, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament warned China on Thursday it wont ratify a long-awaited business investment deal as long as sanctions against European Union legislators remain in place. EU lawmakers adopted a resolution in which they condemned “the baseless and arbitrary sanctions" imposed by Beijing on European individuals and institutions in March. The European Pa...

China imposed its sanctions after the EU sanctioned Chinese officials over human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.

EU Wont Proceed With Chinese Trade Deal Unless China Lifts Sanctions On 5/20/21 at 2:12 PM EDT The European Union will not proceed with a trade deal with China unless the country lifts its sanctions on EU legislators, the European Parliament said Thursday. The EUs ratification of the multibillion-dollar investment deal with China will likely be delayed. Chinese sanctions on EU legislators were placed after the EU, Britain, Canada and the U.S. coordinated sanctions against Chinese officials amid...

Monday 29 March 2021 The International Bar Association (IBA) joins the international community in solidarity with those against whom China’s government has levied asset and visa sanctions. Widely regarded as retaliatory measures by the Chinese authorities, individuals, institutions and organisations, that have been critical of the alleged ill-treatment of Uighur Muslims in the Northern province of Xianjiang in China, have been targeted by China’s government. The imposed restrictions prev...

John Thys/AP European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The EU put sanctions in place against China, which retaliated with its own sanctions. But the fate of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), which was agreed in principle in December, has been in the balance as relationships have deteriorated. The EU, US, Canada and Britain sanctioned four Chinese officials in March. China retaliated by sanctioning a host of MPs including five members of the European Parliament. Earl...

Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 9:46 am For nearly two decades, New Zealand has been juggling our dependency on China when it comes to trade, while expecting our traditional allies to look after our defence and security needs. Yet the scale of China’s human rights abuses has added a new element to the mix, and we’ve finally chosen sides: its China for us, regardless – even though we’ve chosen to cloak that decision by telling our allies that we have an “independent” foreign policy. (They’l...

Chinese Premier Meets With Business Leaders in Chengdu Seeking Support for Imperiled EU-China Trade Deal Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has met with 14 foreign business representatives already doing business in China in an attempt to convince investors that the country continues to be a good environment to do business as China continues to open up to international trade. The meeting with representatives from Germany, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and other cou...

Back-and-forth sanctions accuse China of human rights violations share China placed sanctions on several British politicians on March 26, following the move of the United Kingdom to join the European Union and other countries in sanctioning Chinese officials for alleged human rights violations, according to   The Chinese government is accused of detaining Muslim Uighur people in mass detention centers in the Xinjiang region.   “We, the Foreign Ministers of Canada and the United Kingdom, an...

Brussels [Belgium], April 5 (ANI): Relations between the European Union and China have taken a "sharp turn for the worse", due to tit-for-tat sanctions imposed by Beijing and Brussels.

CAF Letter Regarding the Government Sanctioned Campaign Against Boğaziçi University, Its Students, Faculty and Institutional Structure [The following letter was issued by the in Turkey.] T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel Sekreterliği Dear President Erdoğan: We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America and its Committee on Academic Freedom to express our outrage over the escalation of the government-sanctioned campaign against Boğaziçi University and its...