EU-China campaign

Hong Kong Watch regularly visits Brussels to update Members of the European Parliament on the latest developments in Hong Kong and China.

In November 2023, Hong Kong Watch’s co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Benedict Rogers launched our groundbreaking report on the state of religious freedom or belief in Hong Kong in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Since the summer of 2020, Hong Kong Watch has been campaigning against the adoption and ratification of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), an investment treaty agreed in principle by the EU Commission and China in December 2020. We argue that the CAI would reward the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with favoured access to European markets at a time when it is dismantling Hong Kong’s autonomy, violating international treaties, and undertaking gross human rights violations within and outside its borders.

We have also been calling for the EU to step up to help Hong Kongers through suspending extradition treaties with the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong, introducing lifeboat measures to allow Hong Kongers to flee from the oppression of the CCP, and implementing sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials responsible for human rights abuses in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and around the world.