Parliamentary Inquiry Submission - Written Evidence for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry on The UK’s security and trade relationship with China TRC0013

Federica D’Alessandra, Henry Wu, Rhiannon Neilsen, Kirsty Sutherland

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    PublisherUK Parliament, International Relations and Defence Committee
    Place of PublicationOnline
    Publication statusPublished - 2021

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