China’s Proposal to Lift Sanctions Is ‘Offering to Labour’ In Exchange for Mega-Embassy

Iain Duncan Smith has said China’s offer to lift sanctions on him and other parliamentarians is a move to grease the wheels for the country’s London mega-embassy bid. Nine other predominately Tory parliamentarians were sanctioned in 2021 for speaking out against the genocide in Xinjiang…

A Chinese embassy spokesman said yesterday in response to reports that some or all of those sanctions are set to be lifted that “China has always attached importance to developing relations with the UK.[…] Read the rest