21 Amendments of Ignazio CORRAO related to 2015/2003(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard to the 17th bilateral summit between the EU and China held in Brussels on 29 June 2015 and to the summit joint statement issued on that date,
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas environmental degradation in China has taken dramatic proportions and requires powerful and targeted government action; whereas the question of sustainable development and climate change was discussed at the recent EU- China summit and a joint statement on climate change was issued;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the main terrorist threats originate from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; whereas, in particular since the 1990s, the Chinese Government have been pursuing a policy of ethnic settlement in the province, which has a large Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uyghur community; whereas a large proportion of the raw materials needed by China come into the country through Xinjiang and Tibet;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the new White Paper on China’s military strategy postulates that the traditional mentality that land outweighs sea must be abandoned and that greater importance should be attached to managing the seas and protecting maritime rights and interests; whereas China is refusing to recognise the UNCLOS convention in connection with the South and East China Sea disputes;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas Tibetans express their cultural identity through the Lhakar m, to date, more than 140 Tibetans have burned themselves alive in protest against Chinese Government (‘white Wednesday’) by wearing only Tibetan clothes, speaking only Tibetan and eating only Tibetan food each Wednesdaypolicy in the autonomous region of Tibet, and whereas the death in prison of lama Tenzin Delek Rinpoche recently gave rise to fresh tension; whereas a policy of Han settlement is being pursued in Tibet;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the EU and China as a source of inspiration to strengthen the Strategic Partnership, in the hope that the recent EU-China summit will result in relations based on trust, transparency, respect for human rights, and mutual benefit, in particular in the social sphere;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Expresses concern at the draft act on foreign NGOs which would introduce a set of restrictions including a ban on funding from outside China, a long and burdensome procedure for registering with the Ministry of Public Security and the requirement to have a government- affiliated sponsor in order to operate in China;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Feels there to be certain contradictions between the statements made by the Chinese Government as regards a fresh commitment to the rule of law and the simultaneous repression, which seems principally to relate to human rights defenders and lawyers; cannot fail to observe that this repression has coincided with a period of public consultation on the review of the Chinese criminal code;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Expresses particular concern at the new draft act on cybersecurity, which would bolster and institutionalise the practices of cyberspace censorship and monitoring already existing in China and impose on internet service providers conditions that conflict with freedom of expression and the protection of privacy, when these are values recognised and protected in the Chinese Constitution itself;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the urgency of environmental protection measures, bearing in mind, for example, that in 2014 only eight out of 74 major cities reached the national standard of PM 2.5 air pollution concentrations; warns that the double water crisis (massive pollution combined with increased water usage) could cause major political and social instability; welcomes the fact that under the new environmental protection law local cadres are accountable, also retroactively, for environmental damage caused during their tenure; points out that the EU-China Summit in June 2015 also established environmental policy and climate change measures under which China is to comply with CO2 emissions limits with a view to the Paris Summit in December 2015 and in line with the objectives of the 2020 Strategic Agenda adopted in Peking in 2013;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the urgency of environmental protection measures, bearing in mind, for example, that in 2014 only eight out of 74 major cities reached the national standard of PM 2.5 air pollution concentrations; warns that the double water crisis (massive pollution combined with increased water usage) could cause major political and social instability; welcomes the fact that under the new environmental protection law local cadres are accountable, also retroactively, for environmental damage caused during their tenure; is concerned about the degradation of Tibet's environment due to China's policies of fast-track development in the region which focus on increased urbanization and infrastructural development; is concerned about the fact that one of the most direct consequences of such policies is the melting of Tibet's estimated 46,000 glaciers, which feed most of the biggest Asian rivers;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Expresses concern at China’s nuclear plan which foresees a doubling by 2020 of nuclear power production to a level of 58 Gigawatts, with the construction of 28 new nuclear power stations; considers that, in view not least of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima in 2011, the Chinese authorities should give priority to plans that focus primarily on security rather than on rapid expansion; takes the view that China should centre its efforts on the use and expansion of its own sources of renewable energy, in which it is already the world leader;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers it regrettable that, contrary to the 2002 Declaration of Conduct, several parties are reclaiming land in the Spratly Islands, and is especially concerned about the massive scale of China’s present efforts, which include building military and industrial facilities, ports, artificial islands and at least one airstrip; expresses extreme concern at the environmental impact occasioned by competition in the region, given that these waters contain 10% of all the world’s fish stocks; warns against the looming danger of an increased presence of and confrontation between rivalling naval vessels and air patrols in the area;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls the necessity of avoiding unilateral provocative actions in the South China Sea and stresses the importance of peaceful settlement of disputes based on international law and with the help of impartial international mediation such as UNCLOSvia a multilateral commitment on the part of all the stakeholders in the region apt to lead to a fair division of territorial waters acceptable to all the opposing parties; considers it regrettable that China refuses to acknowledge the jurisdiction of both UNCLOS and the Court of Arbitration; endorses the urgent call by the 26th ASEAN Summit for the speedy adoption of a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Chinese Government to use all its levers of influence to induce North Korea to return to credible denuclearisation talks and to take concrete steps to denuclearise; highlights China’s decision not to accept North Korea as a founder member of the AIIB;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Stresses the need for coordination and responsibility-sharing between the EU and China as regards development financing and cooperation policies, with a special focus on poor countries in Africa where social tensions continue to arise over the exploitation of raw materials;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that a strong contradiction exists between the official Chinese aspiration to the universality of human rights and the worsening human rights situatdramatic decline in the human rights situation, particularly in the first half of 2015; expresses concern at the new national security law, which is very vaguely formulated and is liable to be interpreted very broadly, and at the new anti-terrorism law, which includes clauses that define criticism of the government as a type of subversion;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Criticises the fact that in China freedom of religion is not a right, but a matter for the state, which sets the limits of what is permissible; supports the resistance of Chinese churches against the government’s renewed strategy of ‘sinicisation’ of Christianity; condemns, in particular, the ongoing anti-Christian campaign in the province of Zhejiang, during which dozens of churches were demolished and more than 400 crosses removed in 2014; shares the concerns of churches about other prov and the ban on fasting during Ramadan imposed on Muslims in the Xinjiang region; deplores the attitude of the Chinese Government towards Buddhism and the imposition of an unelected management committee at every monastery and outlawing of images of the Dalai Lama; expresses concern at the use of Article 103 (‘separatism’) of the Chinces where there is a strong Christian presencee criminal code against practising Buddhists;
Amendment 437 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Protests against the marginalisation of Tibetan culture by the CPC and urges the Chinese authorities to respect the freedom of expression, association and religion of the Tibetan people; is deeply concerned about the fact that over 140 Tibetans have resorted to self-immolations to protest against the lack of freedom and stringent crackdown in Tibet; calls on China to resume the currently stalled Sino-Tibetan dialogue in order to achieve a mutual solution for the current instability in Tibet; stresses that measures to improve the situation in Tibet should be addressed as a matter of urgency, as the current tension may lead to increased instability in the near future; is deeply concerned about the forceful re-settlement of over 2 million Tibetan nomads and herders into the so called "New Socialist Village" and by the continued transfer of Han Chinese population into Tibetan inhabited areas as well as China's plan to increase urban population in Tibet by 30 percent by end of 2020;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Protests against the marginalisation of Tibetan culture by the CPCPeking and urges the Chinese authorities to respect the freedom of expression, association and religion of the Tibetan people and to cease their repression of activists campaigning for the human rights of the Tibetan people;