UK MPs flag China’s ‘bullying behaviour’ with India

LONDON: British MPs have raised concerns in Parliament over China’s “bullying behaviour” in the border dispute with India and the “delayed declaration” of COVID-19 and urged an internal review into the UK’s dependence on China with a view to reducing collaboration with the country.

Conservative Party MP Ian Duncan Smith raised the issue as part of an urgent question in the House of Commons on Monday evening on the “mistreatment” by the Chinese Government of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang province.

“Given the Chinese Government’s appalling record on human rights, their attack on freedoms in Hong Kong, their bullying behaviour in border disputes from the South China seas to India, their blatant breaching of the rules-based order governing the free market and their delayed declaration on COVID-19, will the Government now initiate an internal review of the UK’s dependence on China, with a view to significantly reducing that dependence,” questioned Smith. (AGENCIES)

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