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The EU may consider lifting its arms embargo on China in order to improve cooperation with the country, writes ICT Brussel’s Eu Policy Director Vincent Metten in this opinion piece published by Euractiv on 25 February 2011. However, he argues that the bloc ought to consider such a move in the context of human rights.
The EU needs a strategic approach to its dealings with China, writes ICT’s EU Policy Director Vincent Metten in this opinion piece published by Politico.
The European Parliament has passed a resolution in which it calls for an end to the death penalty in China and expresses concern at the way in which ethnic minorities are treated before the law in China. The resolution strongly condemned the execution of the two Tibetans, Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak, in September and called […]
On 20 November 2009 the European Union and the People’s Republic of China held the 28th round of the EU-China Dialogue on Human Rights in Beijing. The Dialogue provided a platform for a frank exchange of views between the People’s Republic of China and the EU on a wide range of human rights issues. The […]
The European Union condemns the recent executions of two Tibetans, Mr Lobsang Gyaltsen and Mr Loyak. On the basis of its principled opposition to the death penalty, the EU, on 8 May 2009, called for a commutation of the death sentences handed down by Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court to several Tibetans, among them Mr Lobsang […]
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) recently concluded its visit to China and Tibet and has released their initial findings from the trip to Beijing and Lhasa. The mission, from the 9-17 September, focused on the role and expertise of civil society in increasing knowledge about the economic and social situation in Tibet, as […]
The British parliamentary committee on arms export controls has just completed and published a scrutiny of the UK’s arms sales in which it raises the issue of the EU-China Arms Embargo and calls for the embargo to remain in place. The arms embargo was enacted following the Chinese government’s violent response to the Tiananmen protesters […]
Tiananmen Square marked a turning point not only in China’s political evolution, but in its relations with the rest of the world. The violent suppression of student demonstrators put a sudden stop to the peaceful opening up and engagement with the West which Deng Xiaoping had pioneered throughout the 80’s. Europe and the US immediately […]
In the face of China’s consistently intense pressure, the EU needs to end its equivocation and put up a united front, writes ICT’s EU Policy Director Vincent Metten in this opinion piece published by Politico.
A new policy paper by the International Campaign for Tibet, to be released today in Brussels, calls upon the European Union to adopt a consistent new position on Tibet to reflect the importance of Tibet in EU-China relations. A summary of the paper and details of the press briefing today are included below. The EU-China […]