Government agrees funding for academic to investigate MPs who challenge China

The Government has agreed to pay more than £80,000 for an academic to write a thesis expected to accuse MPs of spreading "moral panic" about China. The taxpayers' money will support the researcher to criticise the China Research Group (CRG) of Tory MPs, and the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), which is made up of legislators from across the political spectrum in multiple countries. The groups campaign against Chinese human rights abuses , such as Uyghur oppression , as well as seeking to highlight economic and infrastructure threats posed by the regime to the west. The formal proposal for the…