Incredible.

Europe's phoney war with China is at an end.

After years of building up an improved arsenal for a trade war, Europe is now showing it is willing to get tough on Beijing.

EU pulls its gun on China, with Stuart Lau Koen Verhelst
politico.eu/article/eu-chi…

🚨 The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on the cases of Andy Li and Joseph John, urging for #Article23 in Hong Kong to be repealed; Chief Executive John Lee and other officials to be sanctioned; and the suspension of extradition treaties with the PRC and HK.

IPAC 🇪🇺…

My final speaking time in the #EuropeanParliament . About human rights, China & EU-China relations. These topics will continue to be of central relevancy also in the future. My focus yesterday:
Freedom for Andy Li, Joseph John, Jimmy Lai and all #HongKong democrats!

1/ Successfully launched Vote for Hong Kong 2024 (V4HK)’s survey report at the parliament yesterday, which showed UK HKers are keen voters but yet to have party preferences, while concerning UK’s China policy (in particular transnational repression issue) the most.
Full report: vote4hk.uk/survey-report

Looks like the Maximilian Krah affair is much bigger than just his assistant spying for the Chinese:

Now German prosecutors launched a 'preliminary investigation' against the far-right AfD politician 'in connection with *alleged Chinese payments* for his work' as MEP.

While you slept, the Senate passed legislation requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok. TikTok can continue, just not under Chinese ownership with attendant data risks.

Biden will sign it, so it’s happening.

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BREAKING: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that China 'continues to carry out genocide, crimes against humanity, forced labor, and other human rights violations against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups'

🇨🇳 State media thinks you’re stupid and that you haven’t noticed that Putin’s illegal war depends on Beijing.

China sold Russia:

👉70% of machine tools used to make ballistic missiles in 4th 1/4 of 2023
👉90% of macro electronic equipment used to make tanks and drones in 2023…

Attention rightly on the Ukraine aspect 👏

❗️But barely noticed is the TikTok part of this odd bill bundle - which forces TikTok to jettison Chinese parent company ByteDance❗️

Hard for the Senate to stall this now. TikTok likely to be under US ownership before long.

ARD Doping Editorial Team world exclusive after two-year investigation: Mass doping suspicion in China - WADA fails to act: 23 top Chinese swimmers tested positive in 2021 but were secretly cleared in time to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. With Hajo Seppelt 1/

Let me see if I’ve got this straight:

China bans Western apps

But the West isn’t supposed to ban Chinese apps?

China, Iran and Russia ban internal protests against authoritarianism

But finance and coordinate protests in the West?

One-sided freedom as a root vuln

Authorities in Xinjiang have banned Uyghurs from using … TikTok and tools to circumvent censorship, according to a video released from Chinese police, in what experts say could be the beginning of another major crackdown on … Uyghurs. rfa.org/english/news/u…

Why a deluge of Chinese-made drugs is hard to curb bbc.in/3vWEPIi

Major news: the @ILO adopts new forced labor measurement guidelines that squarely target Uyghur forced labor. Deeply humbled to see that they adopt my work in their new research guidance on state-imposed forced labor. An analysis is below and in the linked article:…