UK-China Transparency 英中透视 produces research on ties between the UK & China, publishes primary sources, & promotes transparency We are a registered charity
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UK-China Transparency has been investigating Chinese organised crime in the UK.
Last year, the National Crime Agency described it as the main foreign crime threat facing our country.
A groundbreaking new report on it has just been published.
Leaks from inside the London branch of China’s largest state-owned bank open a Pandora’s box of long-ignored regulatory questions. Can Britain adequately regulate entities controlled by the CCP?
ICBC is the largest bank in the world measured by assets and is headquartered in Beijing. In September, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published an investigation based on 4.8 million confidential records from ICBC’s London branch and UK subsidiary.
It highlights a long-ignored problem: what happens when an organisation operating inside the UK is simultaneously subject to British regulation and embedded within a Chinese system in which “the Party leads everything”?
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Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison has long been possibly the most significant holder of critical national infrastructure (CNI) assets in the UK, with assets spanning telecommunications, water, power and transport.
In the last ten months, however, it has divested more than £18 billion worth of assets.
After nearly a decade as the ‘elephant in the room’ of national security concerns about critical infrastructure, CK Hutchison’s partial withdrawal has gone mostly unnoticed
Our latest piece of research relates to today's warning from MI5 of a Chinese Ministry of State Security-affiliated organisation that has been funding and receiving research involving UK-based researchers.
We identified grants, universities, guidance issued by the MSS-linked organisation, and research priorities.
Read the full blog here --> ukctransparency.substack.com…
Ahead of the publication of her new book, guest writer @RewcastleBrown lays out her work on the monstrous 1MDB scandal. Pocked with British connections, it raises questions about Chinese investment in the developing world
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Nearly 5 years ago, in London, a far-left group organised an "anti-racism" rally with the support of bodies linked to Beijing's United Front influence network.
It turned into a brawl that pitted CCP allies, a 'triad', and a convicted people-smuggler against democracy activists.
The rally was promoted by means of an article in the Morning Star entitled “Stop racism! Stop anti-Asian hate!”, penned by Dr Ping Hua 华萍, a scientist at the university of Southampton.
The article conflated criticism of the CCP with racism.
Read our full research, including details of the incident's connection to the National Security Act spy trial earlier this year -->
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Further new research from UKCT on Beijing's diplomacy in Northern Ireland, including a look at:
- Attempts to put propaganda books into school libraries; the school which provided UKCT with a list said that the books had been put into storage instead
- Interactions with NI business and universities
- Meetings with the Northern Irish police, sensitive because of cross-border issues and Chinese organised crime; there is evidence of Chinese gangs working with IRA criminal splinter groups
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And coverage of the school books issue in the Belfast Telegraph belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…