“I’m realistic that one phone call, one visit, one meeting isn’t going to fundamentally change the direction of travel,” James Cleverly told the BBC. But “patient, consistent, and reliable communication could have an effect."
James Cleverly met senior officials in Beijing. Some politicians within his own party say he should have snubbed the invitation.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is making an effort before next year’s parliamentary dissolution to get Sino-British relations on a more even keel. The country's bicameral legislature has been scathing toward the government’s approach.
Philip Snow's "The Fall of Hong Kong" is the definitive account of the Japanese invasion and occupation of Hong Kong starting on Christmas Day 1941, all the way through the Imperial Army's departure and the rebuilding of this British colony.
Art students painted Chinese characters over a mural on a wall in an East London neighborhood. And then a war of words — and paint — broke out.
Born in Jiujiang, Chiang Yee found himself in England in 1933, where he became an exile after war broke out back home. He became a "silent traveler," and wrote books beloved in his adopted land.
A recent House of Lords panel in the U.K. drew attention to the way China, among other countries, abuses the global Red Notice system that was originally set up to stop criminals from fleeing justice.
He was a professor who worked within the Chinese state system to advocate for better treatment of the Uyghurs. His reward was a sentence to life in prison.
On New Year's Day in 2003, Chinese soccer was at its peak, with the national team coming off its first-ever World Cup appearance and two ascendant stars — Li Tie and Sun Jihai — playing with big-time clubs in England. When Li and Sun's respective teams faced off, it was must-see TV in China.
Activists and a former victim of internment and forced labor sued the British government for failing to act on reports of forced labor in cotton supply chains. They lost the case, but say the wording of the judgment was an “important vindication” for persecuted Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities.