‘Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, is said to have been targeted alongside other parliamentarians in the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.’‘Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, is said to have been targeted alongside other parliamentarians in the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.’While diplomatic rows are inevitable, the priority is to keep channels open, and engage with Beijing about the climate crisis. That would teach those Chinese a lesson.
Still, I doubt if this gets even a news-in-brief in the People’s Daily. Britain’s parliament cannot be a big deal in the hierarchy of Beijing security. The fulminations of Duncan Smith will hardly have had the People’s Liberation Army straining at the leash. It is sound and fury, much like at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when any British minister meeting a Chinese host was told always “to raise issues concerning Uyghur human rights”.
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