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Tom Tugendhat insisted that he and his followers were not “anti-China”.
A group of British Conservative MPs said that after the New Corona Virus Crisis, the UK needs to better understand China’s economic ambitions and global role.
The group is chaired by Tom Tugendhat, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons of the British Parliament and a member of the Conservative Party. Its objective is “to promote debate and new thinking”. Tugendhat harshly criticized China’s response to the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, saying that Beijing had downplayed the outbreak early in the outbreak of the virus.
But Tugendhat said that the “China Research Group” in this parliament will not be “anti-China.”
He also said the parliamentary group “will explore opportunities to engage with China” and study China’s economic goals.
Conservative MP from Tonbridge and Malling also said: “The coronavirus crisis highlights the urgent need to better understand China’s position in the world and our economy with China.” And diplomatic contacts. ”
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Tugendhat condemned the CCP for putting the security of his regime above the life and death of the people during the outbreak of the new crown virus.
He said: “The long-term suppression of information transparency in Beijing has led to the continued development of this crisis. The Communist Party of China is using the current emergency to generate influence around the world.”
“False data”
On Friday Tugendhat, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons of the British Parliament, condemned the Chinese Communist Party for putting the security of his regime above the life and death of people during the outbreak of the new crown virus.
He said on the BBC Radio 4 program: “It is not the CCP that has addressed the CCP, not that they do not have enough data, but that they deliberately falsified the data.”
Although China has been praised by the World Health Organization for managing the new crown epidemic, many people, including United States President Trump, have accused the Chinese authorities of manipulating the information and not issuing enough warnings to other countries about its severity.
Chen Wen, minister and chief librarian at the Chinese embassy in the UK, defended China’s response to the outbreak of the Wuhan epidemic and said that “closing the city” reduced the spread of the virus to other countries by “77%”.
“The Chinese have paid a high price for this,” he added.
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“Political motivation”
When accused of spreading false information about the source of the virus, Chen Wen, the embassy of the Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom, said that this statement “may be as dangerous or even more dangerous than the virus itself”, and that ” unity and cooperation “is the only way to beat the virus.
She responded to the call for an international investigation into China’s response to the virus outbreak, saying that this behavior was “politically motivated” and would “have no benefit” to anyone.
Tugendhat said the new team he led to establish would examine not only the epidemic, but also China’s long-term economic and diplomatic goals. This parliamentary group also has eight other members of the Conservative Party, including former cabinet minister Damian Green.
The British government had a dispute when it decided to allow Chinese tech company Huawei to enter the UK’s 5G network. The team will focus on the possible consequences of the new technology and who will ultimately control the technology platform.
The team will also study China’s foreign policy, especially its relationship with the world’s poorest regions.
