New Book Exposes CCP’s extensive and pervasive human rights abuses

October 19, 2022

THE CHINA NEXUS

Thirty Years In and Around the

Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny

By Benedict Rogers

• Foreword by Lord Alton

• Preface by Nathan Law

Published 25th October 2022 | USA & Canada 8th November

 We can no longer ignore China’s intensified repression of its own people or the threat posed by the Chinese government to human rights, democracy and trade worldwide.

·         A comprehensive analysis of the human rights crisis in China, from Hong Kong to the Uyghurs to Tibet, from forced organ harvesting to religious persecution and the crackdown on dissidents, media, civil society and lawyers, this book also assesses the Chinese Communist Party regime’s complicity with atrocities worldwide and its threat to our own freedoms.

 •      Drawing on the author’s 30 years of experience as a journalist and human rights campaigner in and around China (and subsequent ban from the country), the book examines the

international community’s response to the challenges posed by Beijing and offers ideas for ways forward for China policy.

 ·       Author Benedict Rogers is available for interview, byline pieces or commentary.

 Benedict Rogers first went to China at age 18 to teach English for six months in Qingdao (1992), three years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. That opened the door to a thirty-year relationship with China, teaching English in schools and hospitals, working as a journalist in Hong Kong, documenting the plight of refugees, and campaigning for human rights. Pioneering international inquiries into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, the genocide of the Uyghurs and global action for Hong Kong, as well as highlighting the Vatican's silence, the author has been at the heart of advocacy for human rights in China in recent years. In 2017, on the orders of Beijing, he was denied entry to Hong Kong, 20 years after he had moved to the city as a journalist and activist.

 This book tells the story of Rogers’s fight for freedom for the peoples of China and neighbouring countries Myanmar and North Korea, chronicles the emerging global movement for human rights in China, and sets out what the free world should do next. It describes the importance of the "China Nexus" in both the author’s personal journey and the challenges of modern geopolitics. Rogers takes readers on a harrowing yet inspirational journey, honouring the leaders and participants in the human rights activities that the Chinese Communist Party has suppressed since its inception in 1949. He exposes the regime’s programs of re-education, cultural assimilation, and multiple genocides, purportedly designed to lead to the creation of a more harmonious society, and lays to rest the CCP’s specious claims that all Chinese citizens are equal and are afforded basic human and civil rights.

About the Author

BENEDICT ROGERS is a human rights activist and writer specialising in Asian policy and geopolitics. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Watch, Senior Analyst for East Asia at CSW, an advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), the Stop Uyghur Genocide Campaign and several other charities, and Deputy Chair of the UK Conservative Party Human Rights Commission.

 Rogers is a regular contributor to national and international publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Diplomat, Foreign Policy and The Tablet. He has appeared regularly on the BBC, Al-Jazeera, CNBC, Sky News and other television and radio broadcasts, contributed to an Intelligence Squared podcast, and testified in the UK Parliament, the European Parliament, the Japanese Parliament and the US Congress. He regularly briefs and advises Parliamentarians and policymakers around the world.

 In 1992, aged 18, he lived in Qingdao, China for six months, teaching English, and from 1997-2002, the first five years after the handover of Hong Kong, he lived in the city, working as a journalist. He is the author of six other books and presently lives in London.

 The China Nexus will be published by Optimum Publishing International and available in hardback (£24.99), paperback (£18.99) and ebook (£11.99) at all good book shops and online book sellers. Canada Paperback $29.95 | USA Paperback $24.95

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