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The lopsided agreement, which ostensibly aims to level the economic and financial playing field by providing European companies with improved access to the Chinese market, actually allows China to continue to restrict investment opportunities for European companies in many strategic sectors. The deal also lacks meaningful enforcement mechanisms for issues that the EU claims to care about, such as climate change and human rights, including forced labor. China has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to use its economic power as a strategic weapon. By deepening their economic reliance on China without coordinating their policy with fellow democracies European nations are increasing their vulnerability to pressure from Beijing. That is a remarkably shortsighted decision to make. Gideon Rachman, ....
Self-censorship on issues relating to China is “the most important freedom of speech issue” facing British universities, a former minister has warned. Lord (Jo) Johnson, former universities minister, has suggested that China’s influence on academic research, which cover its own interests, is a “genuine and real threat to freedom of speech”. He highlighted that the Chinese Government had recently sanctioned academics in Europe for undertaking their research. The former minister’s comments came as the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill will be introduced in Parliament. Academics, students or visiting speakers to English universities will be able to seek compensation through the courts if they suffer loss from a breach of the free speech duties under the Bill. ....
Self-censorship on issues relating to China is “the most important freedom of speech issue” facing British universities, a former minister has warned. Lord (Jo) Johnson, former universities minister, has suggested that China’s influence on academic research, which cover its own interests, is a “genuine and real threat to freedom of speech”. He highlighted that the Chinese Government had recently sanctioned academics in Europe for undertaking their research. The former minister’s comments came as the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill will be introduced in Parliament. Academics, students or visiting speakers to English universities will be able to seek compensation through the courts if they suffer loss from a breach of the free speech duties under the Bill. ....
China has imposed sanctions on more than two dozen European and British lawmakers, academics and think tanks. The move comes after the European Union and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses in China s Xinjiang region. China contends that its sanctions are tit for tat morally equivalent retaliation in response to those imposed by Western countries. This is false. The European sanctions are for crimes against humanity, whereas the Chinese sanctions seek to silence European critics of the Chinese Communist Party. The current standoff is, in essence, about the future of free speech in Europe. If notoriously feckless European officials fail to stand firm in the face of mounting Chinese pressure, Europeans who dare publicly to criticize the CCP in the future can expect to pay an increasingly high personal cost for doing so. ....