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The Chinese Communist Party gains more influence

Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell.

Europe's financial elite are in bed with the Chinese Communist Party.

The EU abandoned human rights to get a China investment deal.

But some in the British government are trying to make sure the UK doesn't make the same

For more, I spoke with Benedict Rogers, the Co-founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong

Watch, and Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission.

Benedict, as always, it's a pleasure having you on.

It's always a great pleasure to be with you.

It seems like every time we talk, there's been another horrible thing that's happened

Last week, the Hong Kong government arrested more than 50 pro-democracy activists.

What do you think of the international response to that?

I think the international response has not been anything like what it should be in proportion

This was essentially the final dismantling of what existed as a democracy movement.

That's not to say the democracy movement won't try to carry on.

But in formal terms, it was the biggest mass arrest in one swoop that there's ever been

And the international community's response was some strong words, but very little else

and even those strong words were rather lost in the midst of everything else going on.

Well, definitely seems like the Communist Party chose to make those arrests on a very

particular day, January 6th, almost as if they knew the rest of the world would be distracted

Well, absolutely January the 6th, was a pretty dark day for democracy, in terms of the arrest

of people in Hong Kong, in the morning, Hong Kong time for the simple crime in [inverted

commas 00:00:01:40] of trying to carry out an election.

And of course it ended with the very ugly scenes in Washington, DC, a beacon of democracy

So at whilst I wouldn't compare the two, and I think America's democracy is strong and

Hong Kong's freedoms are being dismantled, so it would be wrong to compare them.

But nevertheless, they both have happened on the same day.

You worked on the UK Conservative Party Human Rights Commission Report on China, which is

called The Darkness Deepens, very cheerful by the way.

The report calls out the mendacity, brutality, inhumanity, insecurity in criminality of the

We don't, but it's a report that is based on hours and hours of testimonial evidence

that was presented to the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission in hearings throughout

much of last year, and pages and pages of written evidence.

And that evidence was submitted by a wide range of sources, all essentially saying the

I think what's significant about this report is that, there are other reports that highlight

particular issues, the Uighurs, the situation in Hong Kong, Tibet and so on.

There's very few reports that I've come across that put the whole picture together and show

that the CCP, is not only committing a very likely genocide against the Uighurs and dismantling

democracy in Hong Kong, it is across the board, it is Christians, it's following Gong practitioners,

its civil society, activists, lawyers, bloggers, et cetera.

It's an 88 page report with a long list of tragedies.

And it follows, of course, the report that the commission published in 2016, which was

And the reason for that title at that time, was that one of the people who gave evidence

then said that the situation in 2016 was the darkest moment since the Tiananmen massacre.

With Hindsight that title was perhaps a bit premature and hence The Darkness Deepens.

Well, it's very tragic in reality, but you have to keep a sense of humor in very dark

And we found ourselves as a commission, faced with that linguistic challenge, what title

If we titled it the darkest moment four years ago?

Well, so then what's the next one going to be called if it gets worse?

I think we'll have to come to that when we get to it.

Well, okay, so hopefully won't get to that point.

So what actions does the reports suggest the UK take against the Chinese Communist Party's

Well, it calls first of all for a comprehensive and coordinated thorough review of UK-China

So not just the Foreign Office, but across relevant government departments.

And for a total reset and recalibration of that relationship.

It calls for targeted sanctions, which have not yet been applied, it urges Britain to

work with our allies to lead the establishment of a coalition of the free world to act as

That shouldn't mean the lowest common denominator, countries should be as robust as they possibly

But there is a need for the democratic world to unite and coordinate much more than they

have been because essentially, we need to form a united front to counter the CCP's united

I know recently, some UK Members of Parliament have suggested a genocide amendment to the

So that is an amendment that was pioneered in the House of Lords by people like Lord

Alton and quite amazing range of members of the House of Lords, former cabinet ministers,

the former head of the Royal Air Force, the former head of our intelligence services,

former Supreme Court judges, and whole range of other really distinguished figures.

And it now goes to the Commons next week.

And what the amendment tries to do is two things, firstly, to create a mechanism whereby

people who believe there was a case of genocide, and this applies not simply in the case of

China, but genocide anywhere, wherever it happens, can come to the High Court of England