13 Jan 2021
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has “intensified an assault on all human rights” against every group and individual in China, Britain’s Conservative Party Human Rights Commission has alleged in a report, which claims to show evidence that the actions carried out by the regime are “indicative of the crime of genocide”.
In the report,
The Darkness Deepens: The Crackdown on Human Rights in China 2016-2020 an advance copy of which was seen by Breitbart London the Commission detailed the stunning growth of authoritarianism in China carried out by the dictatorship in Beijing.
The report documented the implementation of mass surveillance systems, mass instances of modern-day slavery, torture, organ harvesting, the dismantling of promised freedoms in Hong Kong, and the crimes committed against ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang.
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Thanks to Georgina Sinclair, Feargal Cochrane, and Tim French for their help with this briefing (all mistakes are the authors’ own).
In the first half of 2020, the Oxford Research Group (ORG) held a series of four face-to-face and online roundtables to understand the risks and challenges remote warfare could present over the next five years and how the Integrated Review could address them.
Three key questions emerged:
How should the UK respond to threats?
How should the UK measure the success of military interventions?
This briefing seeks to address the third of these questions. You can read the first of the three briefings here and the second one here.
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TikTok routes job applicants personal data through China, but doesn t always tell people, Business Insider reported this week.
US and UK lawmakers tell us the revelation is concerning, with one planning to confront TikTok about it on Friday. There is no reason Americans should subject themselves and their personal information to that risk, said a spokesperson for US senator Rick Scott.
The issue raises many questions about every other piece of data shared with them, said Tom Tugendhat MP.
TikTok has said it will halt sending applicant data to China, and said again that it does not store app user data in China.
Posted By Ruth King on December 14th, 2020
The UK’s new MI5 director, Ken McCallum, said that countries such as China and Russia were no longer focused just on traditional espionage activities, such as stealing government secrets, but also on targeting Britain’s economy, infrastructure, and academic research, while seeking to undermine its democracy.
China’s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, later denied threatening the UK by making still another threat: “We make no threats, we threaten nobody. We just let you know the consequences. If you do not want to be our partners and our friends, you want to treat China as a hostile country, you will pay the price. That means you will lose the benefits of treating China as a friend.”