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"Benedict Rogers first went to China at age 18 to teach English for six months in Qingdao (1992), 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 documenting the plight of refugees escaping from Beijing-backed satellite dictatorships and then campaigning for human rights in China. 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. 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. 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."

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The China Nexus is one of those rare books that very clearly records the political environment in China over the past 30 years. Benedict Rogers' concrete, authentic, and reliable narrative provides readers with the precious possibility to understand China. Now that there is open confrontation between China and the West once again, Benedict Rogers' comprehensive account is an invaluable source of knowledge that helps us understand today's world in its whole complexity. - Ai Weiwei This outstanding book by one of Britain's foremost and most knowledgeable campaigners on human rights in China and Asia as a whole is an excoriating and comprehensive denunciation of the appalling and increasingly harsh abuse of its citizens by the communist regime in Beijing. It should be read by everyone concerned about the challenge of sharing our planet with Communist China in the years ahead. - Lord Patten of Barnes, the Last Governor of Hong Kong The Chinese Communist Party has a formidable foe in Benedict Rogers, just as the Chinese people have no better friend. His heartfelt, deeply researched and powerfully argued book should be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the threat we face - and what we must do to protect ourselves - Edward Lucas, The Times There are very few people in the world who have the experience, knowledge and authority of Mr Rogers on China and this book is a must read for anyone who wants to know what's really happening there - Bill Browder, author of Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy and Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath Benedict Rogers, the dedicated founder of Hong Kong Watch, is a serious China watcher. He argues that the 'golden era' of relations between the UK and China is now over and that this emergent superpower is a growing challenge to the democratic world. A powerful and alarming analysis. - Baroness Helena Kennedy, KC, Director of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute

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Benedict Rogers is a British human rights activist and journalist based in London. His work focuses on Asia, specialising particularly on Burma, North Korea and Indonesia. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Huffington Post and has appeared on BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and other many others. Rogers is the co-founder and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party’s human rights commission and the co-founder of the International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea. He is also the East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide and the founder of Hong Kong Watch and a member of the advisory group of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) and an advisor to the World Uyghur Congress. David Patrick Paul Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool, KCSG, KCMCO (born 15 March 1951) is a British politician. He is a former Liberal Party and later Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament who has sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 1997 when he was made a life peer. Nathan Law Kwun-chung (Chinese: 羅冠聰; born 13 July 1993) is an activist and politician from Hong Kong. As a former student leader, he has been chairman of the Representative Council of the Lingnan University Students' Union (LUSU), acting president of the LUSU, and secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS).

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