Johnson’s Global Britain Blueprint Hit by China Human Rights Row
- Tories criticize Johnson’s attempt to balance risks with China
- Raab told officials ‘growth markets’ would fail rights test
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted the U.K. must be ready to increase trade with China, in the face of criticism that his government is putting commercial deals ahead of security and human rights.
Setting out his principles for the U.K.’s future foreign and defense policy, Johnson told Parliament his administration would defend its values as well as its interests. He said Britain had already called out China for the treatment of its predominately Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang, and had intervened to offer 3 million of Hong Kong’s people a path to becoming British citizens.