Politico:Lisa Terrace
"The Most Prominent Hawks Against Beijing"
Lobbied for the Sale of Defensive Equipment to China
Former British Prime Minister Liz Terrace, who takes a hard line against China
lobbied for Beijing to "speed up the sale" of defensive equipment to China.
According to Politico
Terrace tried to prevent the British company's loss of
profits in the millions.
In a letter from Taras to Minister of Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch
dated August 15, 2023, the newspaper obtained a copy of it
It is always better
for the European Union not to sell weapons equipment to
China because it violates human rights in the Uyghur region
and supports North Korea.
in which the former head of government requested the assistance of a British
defence equipment manufacturer in selling defence products to China.
The British authorities had prevented the supply of demining equipment to
China by Richmond Defence Systems, based in Norfolk in eastern England.
She listed all the company's
arguments in a personal address to Kemi Badenoch
whom she appointed to the government during her brief tenure
as prime minister from 6 September to 25 October 2022.
"Dear Kimmy, I am writing on behalf of the voter whose application for
a licence to supply goods to China was first submitted on 01/03/2023
and I would be grateful if you would expedite the issuance of the licence."
Trace asserted that preventing the British company from selling military
equipment to China "would mean the company losing millions later
and would pay the Chinese side to open a project in
this area and produce equipment in China."
The paper noted that Terrace had previously described herself as
"the most prominent hawk towards China among Conservative
Party members" in the House of Commons of
the British Parliament (non-Government MPs).
In May 2023, Liz Terrace visited Taiwan as a member of the House of
Commons, the first visit of a former British prime minister since 1996.
The situation around Taiwan escalated dramatically in August last year after
a visit by then-Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Nancy Pelosi
while China condemned the visit, seeing that move in support of the United States of Taiwanese separatism, and then conducted large-scale military exercises.
Official relations between the central Government of the People's Republic of
China and its province of the island were interrupted in 1949 after Zhang Kai
shek's Kuomintang forces were defeated in the civil war with
the Chinese Communist
Party and moved to Taiwan.
Trade and informal contacts between the island and mainland China
resumed in the late 1980s, and since the early 1990s parties
have begun to communicate through non-governmental organizations
such as the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations Across
the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Foundation for Cross-Strait Exchange.
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