TY - GEN
T1 - Parliamentary Inquiry Submission - Written Evidence for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry on The UK’s security and trade relationship with China TRC0013
AU - D’Alessandra, Federica
AU - Wu, Henry
AU - Neilsen, Rhiannon
AU - Sutherland, Kirsty
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This evidence submission addresses the United Kingdom’s (UK) security and trade interests vis-à-vis China and how Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) can support the UK’s fundamental values and strategic interests. We recommend that HMG incorporate an atrocity prevention lens as a basis for all strategies to promote the rule of law, strengthen good governance, and ensure an international order where open societies can flourish. Specifically, we recommend HMG adopt the following four approaches to China. First and foremost, HMG must design its foreign relations with China in a way that prioritises both UK values and interests. Second, the UK should adopt a ‘flexible approach’ to China, one that prioritises harmonious relations, but allows for cooperation, competition, and confrontation where necessary. Third, HMG should increase the UK’s presence in the region by way of diplomacy, capacity building, economic investment, and support for Indo-Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Commonwealth, and transatlantic alliances and partnerships. Fourth, but not last, HMG should address allegations of international crimes perpetrated in Xinjiang as an integral and unavoidable part of its overall review of UK relations with China.
AB - This evidence submission addresses the United Kingdom’s (UK) security and trade interests vis-à-vis China and how Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) can support the UK’s fundamental values and strategic interests. We recommend that HMG incorporate an atrocity prevention lens as a basis for all strategies to promote the rule of law, strengthen good governance, and ensure an international order where open societies can flourish. Specifically, we recommend HMG adopt the following four approaches to China. First and foremost, HMG must design its foreign relations with China in a way that prioritises both UK values and interests. Second, the UK should adopt a ‘flexible approach’ to China, one that prioritises harmonious relations, but allows for cooperation, competition, and confrontation where necessary. Third, HMG should increase the UK’s presence in the region by way of diplomacy, capacity building, economic investment, and support for Indo-Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Commonwealth, and transatlantic alliances and partnerships. Fourth, but not last, HMG should address allegations of international crimes perpetrated in Xinjiang as an integral and unavoidable part of its overall review of UK relations with China.
M3 - Other contribution
PB - UK Parliament, International Relations and Defence Committee
CY - Online
ER -