Luke de Pulford

❌ Books you can’t buy in Hong Kong: Biography of innocent British citizen Jimmy Lai ✅ Books you can buy in Hong Kong: Mein Kampf

For the doubters: it’s even advertised on a HK government website as being available at an upcoming book fair.

Who is the UK Foreign Secretary these days?

People forget how much Taiwan has sacrificed for its freedoms. I was recently in the ballroom where the end of martial law was declared (Grand Hotel, Taipei). After, I visited the Nylon Cheng (鄭南榕) memorial museum, where his daughter told me about his tragic self-immolation. Cheng fought and died for freedom of speech. His publication, Freedom Era Weekly, was the subject of constant state harassm…

This is the kind of drivel Chomsky would have spewed while eating canapés on Epstein’s private jet. Happily, nobody serious is listening.

IPAC has 10 staff. The CCP has 100 million members and is using its diplomatic apparatus to try to destabilise our network. Not a fair fight, but one we need to have. Talked about this and other matters on the ASPI podcast. 👇

Forget the party politics. This is a matter of national interest. We cannot have a situation where energy deals are struck with Beijing, and kept from public view. Plainly incompatible with govt procurement and anti-slavery laws, and should be challenged.

Also, if you want hard evidence of a civil service in precipitous decline, read this appallingly drafted letter. They ought to use it to test fast stream candidates: if you can’t identify ten problems with it, you’re out.

Prime Minister, nobody wants you to ignore China. They just want you to deal with China like a country which hacks your phone.

Or a country which provides 60-70% of the components essential to Putin's war machine. Or a country which tears up international treaties with you, like over Hong Kong. Or a country which perpetrates what your own frontbench in 2021 called genocide against Uyghurs. Or a country which sanctions your politicians, and harrasses dissidents who have taken refuge in the UK. Or a country which buys up B…

#BREAKING Telegraph reports that Beijing hacked senior cabinet members’ phones *for years*. …on the eve Keir Starmer travels to China.

Don't think people realise the geopolitical significance of the Carney Beijing pivot. ..Paving the way for other middle powers to capitulate. They look at 🇨🇦 (still reeling from a huge CCP political interference scandal) and say "if 🇨🇦 can get away with it..." 🇬🇧 already is.