Hong Kong: Boris Johnson urged to form alliance over China security law
In their letter to the prime minister, the cross-party group of former cabinet ministers says the UK government must be seen to lead the international response, as many countries take their cue from Britain over its former colony.
They urged Mr Johnson to set up an"international contact group" of allies to coordinate any joint action, similar to that set up in 1994 to try to end the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Mr Raab said the new security legislation"very clearly violates" the autonomy that is guaranteed under Chinese law as well as that in the 1997 agreement.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
China's 'nervous' Xi Jinping risks new cold war, last British governor of Hong Kong saysThe West has been even more naive about China than post-Soviet Russia, says Chris Patten
Read more »
China threatens ‘countermeasures’ after UK said it could offer Hong Kong residents path to British citizenshipUK plan to offer 300,000 British overseas passport holders 'pathway to citizenship' would violate international law, claims Beijing
Read more »
Hong Kong officials lash out at Trump plan to strip city of special statusCriticism follows the US president accusing Beijing of breaking its word over Hong Kong for imposing national security laws
Read more »
Seven former foreign secretaries urge UK to take lead on Hong KongCross-party initiative reflects concern response to China’s imposition of security laws cannot be left to Donald Trump
Read more »
What horrors await Hong Kong under full Chinese rule?We were nearing the end of a grim, evening seminar in King’s College London late last year, in which a professor studying China’s internment of over 1 million people in the province of Xinjiang had laid out Beijing’s methods of cultural annihilation.
Read more »
Seven former foreign secretaries urge UK to take lead on Hong KongCross-party initiative reflects concern response to China’s imposition of security laws cannot be left to Donald Trump
Read more »