The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China is an international cross-party group of legislators working towards reform on how democratic countries approach China.
It is made up of global legislators and led by a group of co-chairs, who are senior politicians drawn from a representative cross-section of the world’s major political parties.
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SubscribeMembers of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China subscribe to the following principles:
- Democratic states must maintain the integrity of their political systems, and actively seek to preserve a marketplace of ideas free from distortion.
- A free, open, and rules-based international order that supports human dignity is created and maintained through intention. The persistence of such an order requires like-minded countries to participate actively in its governance and enforcement.
IPAC’s mission is to foster deeper collaboration between like-minded legislators. Its principal work is to monitor relevant developments, to assist legislators to construct appropriate and coordinated responses, and to help craft a proactive and strategic approach on issues related to the People’s Republic of China. Its activities fall into five broad areas:
The People’s Republic of China must be held to the standards of the international legal order, which itself must be protected from distortion.
Relations between states and the PRC must give due prominence to universal human rights.
The PRC must be held to the standards of the rules based order, especially those as set out by the World Trade Organisation.
Democracies must develop complementary security strategies to address challenges presented by the PRC.
The PRC must not be permitted to compromise the sovereignty or institutions of any developed or emerging markets through lending, investment, or by any other means.
The Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) expresses deep concern about recent reports indicating that Chinese companies may be supplying weapons to Russia. Any material support for Russian aggression in Ukraine from China would be a development of an extremely serious nature, necessitating serious consequences. This troubling report and the associated evidence must immediately be […]
We, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China are deeply troubled by reports of cyber attacks on foreign politicians and others strongly linked to the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). These attacks form a part of a well established pattern of intimidation and infringement of personal liberty by entities controlled by PRC state organs. […]
Tokyo, 17th February 2023 – Following keynote addresses by former Prime Ministers Scott Morrison (Australia), Liz Truss (United Kingdom) and Guy Verhofstadt (Belgium) [speeches attached below], a large cross-party delegation of Japanese Diet Members, together with IPAC representatives from the EU, Canada, the UK, and Taiwan, discussed the multiple threats that are posed by the […]
On February 17th, Scott Morrison, Liz Truss, and Guy Verhofstadt, the former Prime Ministers of Australia, the UK, and Belgium respectively, will join the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China’s Tokyo Symposium. Just months away from the Hiroshima G7 Summit, the Symposium aims to encourage a coordinated democratic response to Beijing’s distortion of the international rules-based order. […]
A group of legislators from 15 legislatures globally have called on their respective governments to investigate and suspend commercial activities with companies providing the PRC government with technologies to carry out biometric surveillance in the Uyghur Region, Tibet and elsewhere in the PRC, including the PRC state backed BGI Group and US firm Thermo Fisher. […]
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