Ben Rogers

Benedict Rogers

Benedict Rogers is East Asia Team Leader at CSW, founder and Chair of Hong Kong Watch and co-founder and Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission.

Human rights in China during COVID-19

24 April 2020Let’s be clear: we do not mean China as a country or the Chinese people, who are the primary victims of the brutal regime led by Xi Jinping, and we should at all times make that distinction. We believe we should continue to find ways to strengthen people-to-people relations, and to support the ordinary Chinese people, in particular Christians and other persecuted religious groups. But the time has come when Western foreign policy needs a values pivot. We need to stop kowtowing to Xi Jinping’s…

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