Beneath the Harbor: Hong Kong’s Leading Role in Sanctions Evasion
This report exposes Hong Kong’s central role in facilitating the transfer of money and restricted technology to Russia, Iran, and North Korea, three countries that the international community has sanctioned for their destabilising actions.
Lending Prestige to Persecution: How Foreign Judges are Undermining Hong Kong’s Freedoms and Why They Should Quit
By continuing to serve on Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, overseas Non-Permanent Judges lend their prestige to a justice system that has been undermined and co-opted by Beijing in its relentless efforts to exert total control over Hong Kong. This report makes the case for these judges to step down by exposing their complicity in maintaining Hong Kong’s reputation for rule of law and judicial independence while prosecuting Beijing’s crackdown on pro-democracy dissenters.
Hostile Takeover: The CCP and Hong Kong’s Religious Communities
Religious freedom in Hong Kong is deteriorating. Eyewitnesses contributing to this report detail the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party is pressuring – if not persecuting – religious people and institutions in Hong Kong. Warning signs of what’s to come include Beijing’s Sinicisation of religion, the use of religious education for indoctrination, the intimidation of clergy, self-censorship, and direct attacks on religion and the faithful.
The Strategic Dependence of UK Universities on China – and where should they turn next?
We review the extent to which Britain’s higher education institutions are overdependent on Chinese student fees and research grants from Chinese entities with the potential to significantly harm the UK’s national security.
A Policy Roadmap to Support the People of Hong Kong
This report sets out how the U.S. and international community should pursue a three-pronged strategy to hold officials and entities in the PRC and Hong Kong accountable for the role they played in undermining freedom in the city-state; support the people who – by choice or by force – remain in Hong Kong; and assist Hong Kongers seeking freedom beyond the borders of the city-state.
An Investigation of China’s Confucius Institutes in the UK
There are no off-shoots of the Chinese state that are integrated more closely into British society than Confucius Institutes, which are present on 30 campuses nationwide. Their output complies solely with Chinese Communist Party-approved propaganda but their remit extends well beyond teaching Chinese language and culture.