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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...
