What has this guy been smoking. Must be good.
FEBRUARY 22, 20216:36 AMUPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
Britain to challenge China at U.N. over access to Xinjiang
By Reuters Staff
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will also mark Britain’s return to the U.N. Human Rights Council as a voting member by condemning the rights record of fellow council members China and Russia and will raise concerns about Myanmar and Belarus, his office said.
On China, Raab will refer to reports of abuses in Xinjiang, including torture, forced labour and forced sterilisation of women. “They are taking place on an industrial scale,” he will say, according to his office.
“The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, or another independent fact-finding expert, must – and I repeat must – be given urgent and unfettered access to Xinjiang,” he will say.
China has been widely condemned for setting up complexes in Xinjiang that Beijing describes as “vocational training centres” to stamp out extremism and give people new skills. China’s critics have called them concentration camps.
The United Nations has said at least 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in Xinjiang.
Raab will also raise the “disgraceful” treatment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the crisis in Myanmar and the situation in Belarus. He will set out steps Britain has taken to address these issues, such as sanctions, and encourage others to follow.
Just remembered something about China and Canada, and what the movers and shakers in Canada think about the Meng Wanzhou and the two Canadians arrested by China situation.
There were many voices in Canada, that said Canada should band together with its friends and together they could change China's behaviour, in the hopes of getting the two Canadians out of jail. That is a sound idea, as Canada by itself has no leverage.
The G7 meeting just came and went. Where was the statement on prisoners or hostages or diplomacy with China? There was no statement from the G7. Canada got nothing. The G7 is Canada's best and most powerful friends. No soup for you. At the end, the only thing Prime Minister Trudeau could say was they were "reflecting" on the best course of action still to deal with China.
Holy crap. It is this bad for Canada.
Then on Monday, a few days later, the Canadian parliament will vote on some motion about Xinjiang, in the latest political grandstanding attempt.
That the G7 will not help Canada on the situation of the two Canadians in a Chinese jail, is something we will NOT read in the news. All we read is this empty gesture of a vote in parliament.
Wonder how the Chinese ambassador will attack this!?
WOW! The Anglos are becoming more like the Indian each passing day. They can take this as a compliment for following the lead of the biggest democracy on earth.