Europe-China Relations

China observers say the recent military operations are the result of Germany’s strategic change, moving away from its previous decades-long China policy.

Experts believe structural problem underlines the trade dispute between China and EU.

Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow paymaster general, said the party would make national security the ‘number one priority’ while trading with Beijing.

Rights groups called on the EU to protect its citizens and institutions from ‘complicity in aiding and abetting forced organ harvesting’ in communist China.

US officials said they are ‘troubled and saddened’ to hear of the Moscow police raid and ‘deeply concerned’ about the persecution of Falun Gong globally.

‘We stand ready to make full use of our trade defense instruments if this is necessary,’ European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

‘Russia joins communist China as the only other country where a judge has incarcerated a citizen simply for meditating.’

‘We are concerned about this whether it happens in China or Russia or elsewhere in the world,' a White House National Security Council spokesperson said.

French border police prevent the repatriation of a Chinese dissident by Chinese embassy staff.

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the number of newly registered companies with ‘Russia’ in their names has surged in Hong Kong.

Two years ago, the government halted installations of new surveillance equipment from China on sensitive government sites.

‘The abuse of Falun Gong practitioners in the area of organ transplants is ... unacceptable.’

A Tory MP and long-time critic of the Chinese Communist Party has claimed he was deported from Djibouti, an African country with close links to Beijing.

Beijing and Moscow declared a ‘no limits’ partnership in February 2022, just days before Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

The EU has decided to take action after it raised concerns over the issue with the Chinese authorities but received no ’satisfactory replies or action.’

A group of Chinese academics in the UK were introduced to projects facilitated by a company that partners with China’s top makers of missiles and rockets.

Parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, have been charged with offences under the Official Secrets Act 1911.

The Chinese regime’s support is sustaining Russia’s war on Ukraine.

‘Unilateral economic policy decisions in China are creating major structural difficulties for companies in Germany and Europe,’ the chancellor said.