‘Hundreds of thousands of people’ from Hong Kong might come to the UK after the Government offered an escape route to around three million people in the city to live here, said a former British consulate worker who alleged he was tortured in China. Simon Cheng is the first person to have been granted political … Read more
Shields raised and brandishing guns, a phalanx of riot police advance on protesters in Hong Kong yesterday as China’s crackdown on dissent began. Hundreds of pro-democracy activists were rounded up in the first wave of arrests related to a draconian new security law. They included a 15-year-old girl who was waving a flag calling for … Read more
Boris Johnson unveiled firm plans for the UK to take in up to three million Hong Kong residents today as he blasted China over a draconian new clampdown on opposition. The Prime Minister hit out after the introduction of a landmark new security law giving the communist state sweeping powers to punish dissent in the … Read more
Hong Kong police today made their first arrest under a landmark new security law giving Beijing draconian powers to punish dissent in the city. A man with a ‘Hong Kong Independence’ flag was arrested in Causeway Bay hours after the law came into force and 23 years to the day since Britain returned the former … Read more
A new model has grouped countries into ‘clusters’ depending on how they did over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Researchers from Australia and China found that when the response against the virus first began in January, China was in its own cluster, split from the rest of the world. However, as cases spread around … Read more
An influential London club packed with business and political heavyweights is taking legal action against a book which claims Beijing is grooming the British establishment. The 48 Group Club, which counts former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine among its founders, took down its website after ‘Hidden Hand’ was published, The Times reported. Stephen Perry, a … Read more
A new model has grouped countries into ‘clusters’ depending on how they did over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Researchers from Australia and China found that when the response against the virus first began in January, China was in its own cluster, split from the rest of the world. However, as cases spread around … Read more
China is developing a so-called ‘nuclear triad’ for the first time, which is made up of new land- and sea-based missiles and nuclear-capable aircraft, a European think tank has warned. Beijing also equipped itself with at least 30 new warheads in 2019 as part of the country’s ‘significant modernisation’ of nuclear arsenal, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute … Read more
The worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is ‘yet to come’, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. WHO director Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus claimed the spread of the virus was actually speeding up, despite lockdowns being loosened around the world. He said countries like South Korea, China, Germany, Singapore and Japan had shown there is a … Read more
Campaigners mourned ‘the end of Hong Kong as we know it’ today after China passed a sweeping new national security law which critics say will smother the city’s freedoms. The legislation was unanimously approved by China’s rubber-stamp parliament, little more than six weeks after it was first unveiled. Though the wording of the law has … Read more