For decades, Western governments believed that trade and economic openness would make China freer and more democratic. Instead, democracies have built critical dependencies on an increasingly authoritarian Beijing.
Luke de Pulford, founder and Executive Director of IPAC and a contributing author to Stockholm Free World Forum’s new anthology Europe’s Next Awakening: China – the Enabler and Hybrid Actor, discusses China’s human rights abuses, the crackdown on Hong Kong, and how democracies can reduce their dependence on China. He also makes the case against China’s controversial new “mega-embassy” in London – and why it must still be stopped.
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