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    1 year ago

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    According to an official statement, James Cleverly made clear the UK’s “strength of feeling about the mass incarceration of the Uyghur people” in his bilateral meetings with senior Chinese government figures.

    Shocking as this is, it is hardly surprising, given not just the failure to protect the Uyghur people from genocide but the concerted efforts to deny the facts and a wilful ignorance across politics, business and civil society in the UK.

    Meanwhile, with an increasingly worrying regularity, pivotal figures and organisations within the upper echelons of British society are opting to turn a blind eye to the reality of genocide.

    In a similarly disconcerting vein, a public affairs firm run by Peter Mandelson, an influential figure in Keir Starmer’s Labour party, is advising TikTok, even as global authorities express reservations owing to security implications and alleged links to the CCP.

    Each Hikvision camera in the UK grows the revenue and profits of a company that has been contracted in China to design, implement and directly operate surveillance across the concentration camps where Uyghurs are detained.

    Yet action remains sorely lacking – with only a limited removal of Hikvision cameras from “sensitive” government sites and no wider plan to stop public and private bodies funnelling money to a company complicit in genocide.


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