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FOREIGN AFFAIRS – TOTALITARIANISM AND COMMUNIST CHINA - 18 December 2023

FOREIGN AFFAIRS – TOTALITARIANISM AND COMMUNIST CHINA - 18 December 2023

Sir Julian Lewis: How many times must a totalitarian communist state behave like a totalitarian communist state before the Government will recognise it as a totalitarian communist state?

[The Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Anne-Marie Trevelyan): I do not quite know how to follow such an articulately put question. My right hon. Friend highlights one of the many challenges for those of us who believe in, uphold and want to allow other countries around the world to uphold those values and freedoms – freedom of speech, freedom of choice and freedom of association – and we will continue to work with allies and partners to highlight and to sanction, where we can and where we have the tools to do so, those who continue to breach those freedoms.]