2021年6月17日
Mark O’Neill
EJ Insight
New China ambassador lands in London into nest of hornets
For Zheng Zeguang , the post of ambassador to the United Kingdom was supposed to be the climax of a stellar 35-year career. Instead, he finds himself in a nest of hornets.
A vice-minister of Foreign Affairs since 2015, Zheng took up his post last week with a video speech in which he said closer co-operation between the two countries will "serve the interests of both sides and contribute to world peace, stability and prosperity."
He will have his work cut out. On June 4, a short distance from his embassy in central London, a tribunal opened public hearings to "investigate China's alleged genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghur, Kazakh and other Turkic Muslim populations."
Its website has versions in simplified Chinese, Russian, Urdu and Uyghur as well as English. At the hearings, Uyghur exiles described forced abortions, arbitrary arrests and forced labour in Xinjiang. Beijing has denounced the tribunal and refused to take part. One day will Zheng have to go before it and present his government's case? ...
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