To ask Her Majesty's Government, in arrangements for the 11th UK–China Economic and
Financial Dialogue, what consideration they have given to (1) reports that the Foreign
Secretary described events in Xinjiang as a “genocide”, (2) threats to the territorial
integrity of Taiwan, and (3) the statement by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development
Office in the Six-monthly report on Hong Kong, published on 31 March, that “fundamental
parts of the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ framework have been undermined”.
<p>Economic and Financial Dialogues (EFDs) provide an important mechanism for progressing
our economic, financial and trade relationships. No date has been agreed for the next
UK-China EFD.</p><p>We have been clear that we will not hesitate to stand up to China
on our values where they are threatened.</p><p>The UK has led international efforts
at the UN to hold China to account for its human rights violations in Xinjiang. We
have imposed sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, on senior Chinese
officials and taken steps to help ensure that no UK organisations are complicit in
these violations through their supply chains. As a co-signatory to the Joint Declaration,
we will continue to stand up for the people of Hong Kong, to call out the violation
of their freedoms, and to hold China to their international obligations.</p>
