CEO Benedict Rogers issues challenge to Beijing – and to new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
Explosive new book by Hong Kong Watch CEO Benedict Rogers issues challenge to Beijing – and to new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
On October 25, Optimum Publishing International is proud to launch The China Nexus: Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny. The launch will take place at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in Knightsbridge at 5.30 pm, and will feature remarks by author Benedict Rogers, a panel discussion including Lord Alton of Liverpool, Baroness Helena Kennedy and Uyghur activist Rahima Mahmut, and a book-signing.
In his seventh book, Rogers chronicles his journey and experience as a teacher, journalist and human rights activist in China, Hong Kong, Myanmar (Burma) and North Korea, exposing human rights violations, political repression, religious persecution, forced organ harvesting, and genocide against the Uyghurs. Through extensive research and interviews, Rogers also lays bare the shocking extent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s threats to Taiwan and infiltration of western power structures at the highest levels, including in his home country of the United Kingdom.
The book is published just over a week after the Chinese Consul-General in Manchester and several consular officials brutally attacked peaceful Hong Kong protesters, including dragging one man, Bob Chan, into the consulate’s grounds where he was severely beaten. The launch also comes just days after the former President of China Hu Jintao was mysteriously removed from the CCP’s 20th National Congress in Beijing under Xi Jinping’s eyes, a clear indication of Xi asserting his absolute control.
In an open letter delivered to 10 Downing Street today[TK1] , Rogers calls on new UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to take a hard line to prevent further erosion of human rights and democratic norms both at home and abroad. “For the sake of British sovereignty and freedoms, the new Prime Minister must enact a China policy that protects and promotes democratic values, the rule of law and human rights. He needs to make it clear from the outset that the British people will tolerate no further erosion of these ideals,” Rogers said. “This is more urgent than ever, in the wake of last week’s attack on these values on the streets of Manchester and the CCP Party Congress which saw President Xi Jinping consolidate his power as never before.”
In The China Nexus, Rogers reveals:
The extent of China’s influence at the United Nations, including donating millions of dollars to what former US representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, Ambassador Kelley Eckels Currie, calls a “Chinese slush fund” which UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres can access “for his personal use to do whatever he wanted, with no oversight from anybody other than his office and the Chinese government”. Ambassador Currie says that China has “co-opted” Guterres.
· The scale of the Chinese regime’s complicity with crimes against humanity in Myanmar and North Korea, and the severity of its threats to Taiwan.
· The severity of the crackdown in Hong Kong, the genocide, crimes against humanity, slave labour and torture of the Uyghurs, the continued atrocities in Tibet, the intensity of the persecution of Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, the extent of forced organ harvesting and the widespread, systematic repression of dissidents, bloggers, lawyers, journalists and civil society activists across China.
· His exclusive interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in which His Holiness sets out his proposal for a “Middle-Way Approach” where Tibet remains within China’s sovereignty but enjoys a high degree of autonomy and self-rule.
· The author’s own first-hand experiences of harassment and threats from agents of the CCP regime, including intimidatory letters at his home in London, his mother receiving threats, and the threat of a prison sentence in Hong Kong issued by the Hong Kong Police Force.
“The Chinese Communist Party regime has unleashed a new Cold War against the free world. If you read the speeches of Xi Jinping, or any of the CCP’s documents in recent years, that is clear. Our leaders cannot let us down,” emphasized Rogers. “Our fight is not with the citizens of China; having spent much of my life in the country, I want to make it clear that I love China and its people. It is for them that we must act to stop the CCP’s repression, prevent an invasion of Taiwan and protect our freedoms at home and around the world. And the time to act is now.”
For an interview or to RSVP for the launch, contact:
Benedict Cameron
Cameron Publicity
Tel: 44 07903 951957
Email:ben@cameronpm.co.uk