A global coalition against China is building with the initial group of nineteen law makers from different countries. The new international alliance strongly raised their collective countering stance against China and it also added a notice to the international business community. The recent developments in China has raised huge concerns from the international community.
With the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic that began from China, global distrust and anti-Chinese authoritarian regime sentiments grew stronger than ever. Besides the pandemic, imposition of a security law removing Hong Kong autonomy, global influence against the recognition of Taiwan’s exemplary response to the pandemic and visible influence over World Health Organization sparked the global coalition.
A group of 19 MPs from eight countries and the European Parliament, representing a swathe of parties from across the political spectrum have announced a new international coalition of legislators who want their governments to take a tougher and collective stance towards China, reported the The Sunday Morning Herald today. The intense anti Chinese regime sentiments have broken its long repression of human rights in Tibet, Uighur as well as within China itself.
The founder of the group — former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith — said the business community should also take notice of the new international coalition of legislators, singling out HSBC bank for its “appalling” backing of China’s new security law cracking down on Hong Kong, added the report.
Australian MPs, Liberal Andrew Hastie and Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching are co-chairing the Australian branch of the inter-parliamentary Alliance on China. “The world is seeing an increasingly assertive China; and in Australia, we have become increasingly aware that the way we deal with authoritarian regimes cannot be the same as the way we deal with democracies,” senator Kimberly has said.
Miriam Lexmann, a Member of the European Parliament is quoted to have said that to deal with the risks emanating from China’s authoritarian and assertive policies, EU leaders and policymakers must realise that their values do not hinder their policies — but policies that ignore their values do.