21 Amendments of Charlie WEIMERS related to 2023/2127(INI)
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Chinese Communist Party does not share the same values as European democracies, has become increasingly authoritarian, using military and economic coercion to bully its neighbours and promotes governance models internationally that contradict the EU’s values;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas China is changing and moving into a new era of security and control characterised by an increasingly assertive economic and, foreign and military policy, attempts to change the international rules- based order and increasingly oppressive domestic policies;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the EU and Member States can only credibly defend its interests and values against an increasingly assertive China ifwhen it acts with a single, united approach;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas in order to defend its core values and be treated as an equal partner, Europe needs a new approach towards China based on European strategic autonomsecurity, reciprocity, cooperation with like- minded partners and opposition to coercion;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the EU must not accept any unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, particularly by force, nor ongoing grave human rights violations within China, in particular in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas China’s continued military belligerence and grey-zone activities, as well as other forms of provocation, such as spying, cyberattacks and talent-poaching, against Taiwan pose a grave threat to the status quo between Taiwan and China, as well as to the peace and stability of the Indo-Pacific region and may lead to further dangerous escalation;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas Taiwan’s location, its critical role in global high-tech supply chains, and its democratic way of life makes it strategically important for European democracies;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) continue engaging with China to tackle global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity, health and pandemic preparedness, debt relief and humanitarian assistance, and increase dialogue with China on security issues in view of China’s increasingly criticalaggressive role in global security;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) call on China to uphold human rights and the rules- based international order, especially the Universal Human Rights Declaration and the principles of the UN Charter, including respect for the territorial integrity or political independence of all states;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) maintainencourage diplomatic stability while increasing the EU’s assertiveness towards China, including in order to assume its responsibility as a member of the UN Security Council to pressure Russia into stopping its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine and to insist against any unilateral attempts to change the status quo and increase tensions in cross-strait relations and in the East and South China Seas;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) einsureist that China plays a constructive role in multilateral organisations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations and support steps towards allowing Taiwan’s participation in the meetings, mechanism and activities of relevant international institutions such as the WHO, the International Civil Aviation Organization and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) ensure a unified European approach when China usesagainst China's economic coercion, its economic leveragetinued military belligerence against Taiwan and to silence opposition against its human rights abuses; intensify and include Members of the European Parliament in the Human Rights Dialogue with China and work towards a united approach on cultural and academic cooperation with China while preventing spying and undue influence from Chinese sources of finance;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) express grave concern about the system of mass internment camps established in Xinjiang; condemn the mass deportation, forced political indoctrination and ill-treatment of Uyghur and other detainees in the internment camps and the widespread human rights abuses, including mass forced sterilizations, family separation, restrictions on religious freedom, cultural destruction and the extensive use of digital surveillance technologies; acknowledge that the credible evidence about birth prevention measures and the separation of Uyghur children from their families amount to crimes against humanity and genocide;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
Paragraph 1 – point i b (new)
(ib) urge the Chinese Government to put an immediate end to the practice of arbitrary detention without charge, trial or conviction for a criminal offence of members of the Uyghur and other ethnic Turkic peoples, to close all camps and detention centres, to provide information about the location and medical conditions of those detained and to immediately and unconditionally release the detainees, and to reunite the Uyghur children, that are forcibly put in state-run boarding facilities, with their parents;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) show solidarity with civil society in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong and speed up the implementation of the European human rights framework with Magnitsky- style sanctions in close collaboration with international partners, including the freezing of foreign assets and visa restrictions against those involved in human rights abuses, including political decision makers in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
(na) work closely with the Member States to upgrade EU-Taiwan political relations and to elevate them to a comprehensive and enhanced partnership with the official signing of a respective agreement; urgently begin an impact assessment, public consultation and scoping exercise on a Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA) with the Taiwanese authorities in preparation for negotiations to deepen bilateral economic ties;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subheading 3
Paragraph 1 – subheading 3
Ensuring Europe’s strategic autonomsecurity in dealing with China by de-risking
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) work closely towards fostering unity among the Member States’ approach towards China and strengthen the EU’s strategic autonomsecurity to ensure that Europe is able to defend its values and economic interests, as well as the global rules-based order;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p
Paragraph 1 – point p
(p) work towards a renewed, assertive and coherent EU approach towards China that shapes relations with the PRC in the interest of the EU as a whole and takes full account of the challenges stemming from the PRC’s rise as an aggressive global actor and its increasingly oppressive and repressive domestic policies and assertive foreign policy;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) strengthen the EU’s economic autonomsecurity, ensure mutually beneficial economic relations and prevent sensitive technologies from being used for military purposes by de-risking trade flows and reducing critical dependencies on the PRC without aiming to decouple or turning inwards;
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
(va) work closely with the Member States to upgrade EU-Taiwan political relations and to elevate them to a comprehensive and enhanced partnership with the official signing of a respective agreement; urgently begin an impact assessment, public consultation and scoping exercise on a Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA) with the Taiwanese authorities in preparation for negotiations to deepen bilateral economic ties;