Created in 2020, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China held its first meeting, Friday, Rome, on the sidelines of the top of the richest countries on the planet. These elected officials of all stripes and from 21 countries want to make aware of the Chinese threat.
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She did not miss any of the topics that trigger the wiper of Beijing. The violated freedoms of Hong Kong, which came to speak the former student leader Nathan Law. The busy Tibet, represented by the President of the Headquarters in Exile, Penpa Tsering. The persecution of Uuitur Muslims in China, mentioned by the activist musician Rahima Mahmut. Threats against the Democratic Taiwan finally, recalled with clarity in videoconferencing by his Foreign Minister, Joseph Wu.
For its first meeting, Friday, October 29, in Rome, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) struck strong. This network of some 200 deputies and senators of all banks and many countries was born in 2020 on 4 June, the day anniversary of Tiananmen’s repression.
Friday, the IPAC has received the support of the Taiwanese Minister Joseph Wu, whose presence in Brussels, unconfirmed, provoked the worried way of Chancelleries. “The IPAC goes in the right direction,” he said. Similarly, the European Union is committed to strengthening its political ties with Taiwan, which is a historic stage. The European Commission has also showed its support. We must continue. “
The representative of Taipei recalled the record military incursions of the Chinese army in the island’s defense zone this year, incessant political pressures. “China is trying to destroy democracy. Taiwan is on the front line. We must not let it go. I encourage parliamentarians to come.” With him, this week, two other ministers and heads of Taiwanese companies were received in the Czech Republic. Mr. Wu pointed out that his government encouraged investments in Europe, a fortiori since the freeze of the EU-China trade agreement, whose fate is fed by the sanctions taken by China against European parliamentarians, in response. to those decided by the EU in support of the Ouvours. In doing so, China has only reinforced our human rights determination, “says Belgian MP Samuel Cogolati, targeted by Beijing.
” to the parliaments to act “
The IPAC benefited from the G20, gathered this weekend in the Italian capital, even if it remains lucid on its ability to be heard, as pointed out by the British Conservative Iain Duncan Smith. The Boris Johnson campaign figure in 2019, regrets China “treated as a normal nation in the G20 enclosure, although it handles large-scale human rights abuses”. And adding, at the head of the heads of state: “It’s not because you do not want to talk about it that these problems will disappear!”
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