UK should expel Chinese diplomats

Diplomacy, Hoons, commerce and trade, politics 29 December 2009 1 Comment

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The execution today by the People’s Republic of China of a man with apparently obvious mental illness for drug trafficking should be met by the UK with a diplomatic response. Summoning the Chinese ambassador to the Foreign and Commonwealth office is not enough, and in my view we should mark this human-rights outrage with the expulsion of a small number of junior diplomats.

Of course they will reciprocate, but that reciprocation is a small price to pay to establish beyond doubt that the UK has no truck with the dreadful and unnecessary execution of this apparently very sick man.

JONAH SYNDROME UPDATE: It has just been confirmed that Gordon Brown spoke directly to Hu Jintao about Mr. Shaikh’s case. Will he never learn?

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