The UK Foreign Affairs Committee has published CSRI's evidence as part of its inquiry on 'International relations within the multilateral system'.

Our submissions address the role of the UK, China and Taiwan on the international stage.

committees.parliament.uk/work/8154/inte…

Foreign Affairs Committee

Ministers have announced under the current timeline Whitehall will not remove all #Hikvision cameras from sensitive sites for another year.

Rather remarkable how slow moving this timeline is even when it comes to matters of national security. reuters.com/world/uk/chine…

Our latest paper by Adrian Holt looks at the case for the UK considering a new approach to Asymmetric Warfare, in particular following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine & the Houthi’s targeting of cargo ships in the Red Sea. newdiplomacy.uk/briefings/w8hi….

It appears the price of doing business in the EV market in China is accepting & integrating 🇨🇳 tech into your cars.

Exclusive: Tesla is set to clear a key hurdle to introduce its advanced self-driving features in China by partnering with Baidu in mapping and navigation functions, sources say trib.al/XxFtkO7

We now have a panel discussion with Vote for Hong Kong 2024 (V4HK) to discuss the political landscape in the UK and how the #HongKong diaspora can get involved.

On the panel: Sam Goodman, Clara Cheung 張嘉莉, Ian Ng, and Artie Lam

Elon Musk meets senior Chinese trade officials in Beijing on.ft.com/4ddEMIJ

Feels like a pretty seismic week in EU-China relations. I get the feeling that we're not in Kansas anymore

Here is a summary of the major events that have happened, let me know if I missed any, bearing in mind it's still only lunchtime on Friday...

While the EU investigates SHEIN for allegedly using “illegal content” infringing IP & selling counterfeit goods in Europe, Jeremy Hunt recently invited their head in for a cup of tea in the hope of wooing SHEIN into listing on the London Stock Exchange.

South Korea warns Joe Biden’s EV subsidy scheme at risk of ‘collapse’ on.ft.com/3UwSDCM

New: EU will today inform China of plans to add more Chinese firms to a blacklist for breaching sanctions on Russia

scmp.com/news/china/dip…

'A UK shipping ports has been filled with thousands of electric cars have arrived at a UK shipping port.'

Thought I was having a stroke reading this.
thesun.co.uk/motors/2752421…

Chinese woman charged in UK with criminal possession of crypto on.ft.com/3WeLkRf

I don’t see how these figures add up to get to 2.5% of gdp on defence by 2030, particularly more civil service cuts to fund defence spending.

It presumes (wrongly) that after 14 years of constant rounds of departmental spending cuts there is excess waste just lying around.

This starts to look like a trade war between the EU and China: the EU conducts a ‘dawn raid’ on Chinese security equipment supplier.

Good luck Xi in Paris in early May, convincing Macron to turn the tide. on.ft.com/4b9lySJ

Overcapacity, perhaps, even by Liao Min's standards?

ICE sales were just under 18m cars last year.

per Keith Bradsher 'China has more than 100 factories with the capacity to build close to 40 million internal combustion engine cars a year.'