China Nexus

Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny

Benedict Rogers

• Publisher: Optimum Publishing International
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9780888903280
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Surveillance & Privacy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Benedict Rogers, born in London, England, first went to China at age eighteen to teach English for six months in Qingdao, three years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. That opened the door to a thirty-year adventure with China, from teaching English in schools and hospitals to working as a journalist in Hong Kong for the first five years after the handover to travelling to China's borders with Myanmar/Burma and North Korea to document the plight of refugees escaping from Beijing-backed satellite dictatorships and then campaigning for human rights in China, especially for Uyghurs, Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, human rights defenders, journalists and dissidents, and the people of Hong Kong.

This book tells the story of his fight for freedom for the peoples of China and neighbouring countries Myanmar and North Korea and sets out how a global movement for human rights in China is emerging and what the free world should do next. It describes the importance of the "China Nexus" in the author's journey and geopolitics and its challenges. Pioneering international inquiries into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, the genocide of the Uyghurs and global action for Hong Kong, as well as highlighting the Vatican's silence, the author has been at the heart of advocacy for human rights in China in recent years.

In 2017, on the orders of Beijing, he was denied entry to Hong Kong, 20 years after he had moved to the city and began his working life as a journalist and activist. Benedict Rogers co-founded Hong Kong Watch and worked with a variety of other international groups at the forefront of the fight for freedom, including the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance for China (IPAC), the Stop Uyghur Genocide Campaign, the China Democracy Foundation, the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission which he co-founded, and the international human rights organization CSW with which he has worked for over 25 years.

This book hits the Chinese Communist Party hard on their lack of Human Rights efficacy, genocide, and despicable and barbaric organ harvesting programs (an estimated $1 billion US a year business).

Rogers takes the readers on a journey through some of the leaders and participants in the Human rights activities that China has suppressed since its inception in 1949. He goes on to dispute and lays to rest all of the specious claims by the tyrants in Beijing that all Chinese citizens are equal and are afforded human and civil rights. Currently, the regime is engaged in re-education, cultural assimilation, and multiple genocides, leading to better citizens for China and the world if one believes Chinese officials.

China's ambassador to Canada says reports of genocide and forced labour of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province are the "lie of the century, " despite international bodies like the United Nations deeming the reports of such activities "numerous and credible." The author will completely dispel that notion.

Table of contents

• Foreword by Lord Alton of Liverpool
• Preface by Nathan Law
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: From Dumplings with Everything to Alice in Wonderland — Six Months Teaching in China
• Chapter 2: One Country, Two Systems — The First Five Years on the Ground in Hong Kong
• Chapter 3: China’s Crackdown after a Decade of Opening — The Shrinking Space for Lawyers, Civil Society, Media, and Dissent
• Chapter 4: Christianity under Fire — The Intensification of Persecution of Christians
• Chapter 5: Tibet — Bloodshed in the Land of Snows
• Chapter 6: Uyghur Genocide — Call It by Name
• Chapter 7: A Criminal State — The Persecution of Falun Gong and the Story of Forced Organ Harvesting
• Chapter 8: Broken Promises, Shattered Dreams — The All-Out Assault on Hong Kong’s Freedoms
• Chapter 9: The Threats to Taiwan — Why the Free World Should Defend the Island
• Chapter 10: In China’s Backyard — Beijing’s Complicity with Myanmar’s Crimes against Humanity
• Chapter 11: Totalitarians Together — How China Props Up North Korea
• Chapter 12: Wake-Up Call — What the Free World Must Do to Fight for Freedom
• Photos
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright