14 Amendments of Jarosław WAŁĘSA related to 2015/2003(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard the remarks made by European Council President Tusk on 29th June 2015 at the joint press conference with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang following the 17th EU-China Summit where he expressed the EU’s ‘concerns on freedom of expression and association in China, including the situation of the persons belonging to minorities such as Tibetans and Uighurs’ and where he ‘encouraged China to resume a meaningful dialogue with the Dalai Lama’s representatives’,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)
Citation 34 a (new)
– having regard to the nine rounds of talks between the Chinese government and the Representatives of the Dalai Lama from 2002 to 2010, of which the latest round took place in February 2010,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 b (new)
Citation 34 b (new)
– having regard to the Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy released by the Representatives of the 14th Dalai Lama in 2008 and the Note on the Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy of 2009,
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 c (new)
Citation 34 c (new)
– having regard to China’s White Paper on Tibet, ‘Tibet’s Path of Development Is Driven by an Irresistible Historical Tide’, released by China’s State Council Information Office on 15 April 2015,
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the need for EU Member States to speak with one voice to the Chinese Government, particularly in view of Beijing’s present diplomatic dynamism; deplores the lack of profound debate and close coordination at EU level regarding Member States’ membership of the AIIB; is concerned about the recently developed cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries, also known as the 16+1 group, which includes several EU Member States, as it may divide the EU and weaken its position vis à vis China and does not address human rights issues;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that President Xi Jinping is trying to give a new attractive face to Chinese politics through an attitude of openness and to impress world leaders by projecting both accessibility and powerful self-confidence; points out, however, that President Xi is not the new attractive face of Chinese politics for the country's civil rights activists, lawyers, journalists, bloggers and academics, who find their freedom curbed in a way not seen since decades; deplores with this regard that China's draft NGO law would tighten the government's control over civil society, intensifying an already existing repression and restriction of political and civil rights, including by banning "overseas NGOs" that are not registered with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security and provincial public security departments from funding any Chinese individual or organization, and prohibiting Chinese groups from conducting "activities" on behalf of or with the authorization of non-registered overseas NGOs, including those based in Hong Kong and Macau;
Amendment 289 #
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, as the Tibetan plateau, often referred to as the 'world's third pole', is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world due to China's policies of fast-track development in the region since the beginning of its Western Development Strategy in 1999, which focuses on increased urbanization and infrastructural development, such as the Qinghai-Tibet railway; 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 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Observes that in recent years China's anti-terrorism policy has evolved rapidly from a somewhat reactive ‘defence against terror' approach to a proactive ‘war on terror', along with permanent ‘crisis management' entailing action to an unprecedented extent in affected regions and in society; is deeply concerned about the draft law on counter-terrorism, currently under discussion in China, which may lead to further violations of the rights to freedom of expression, assembly, association and religion, and legitimate human rights abuses in the name of security and the fight against terrorism, in particular in ethnic minority areas, such as Tibet and Xinjiang; calls on China to review the broad and vague language of its draft counter-terrorism law with regard to the definitions of terrorism and terrorist activities, which would attribute huge discretionary powers to both the State organs working on counter-terrorism and security forces;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Deplores the restriction placed on EU Member States diplomats and media to travel freely in China including Tibetan and Uyghur inhabited areas, whilst the Chinese diplomats and journalists enjoy free access across the EU Member States;
Amendment 392 #
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 situation; notes that the degradation of the human rights situation in China has increased since Xi Jinping assumed power in 2013 and intensified an already existing crackdown over the population, limiting the space for expression and peaceful advocacy for civil society even further; is concerned about the fact that the three draft laws to be adopted in 2015 – the counter-terrorism, the national security and the NGO laws – will contribute to legalise the current repression;
Amendment 418 #
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 provinces where there is a strong Christian presence; deplores the fact that the environment to practice Buddhism in Tibet worsened significantly after the Tibetan protests of March 2008, as the Chinese government adopted a more pervasive approach to "patriotic education", including measures to micromanage Tibetan Buddhist monastic affairs, for instance through unelected Management Committees installed in every monastery; "legal education" programs for monks and nuns to ensure that they "do not take part in activities of splitting up the motherland and disturbing social order"; and a ban on images of the Dalai Lama; is concerned about the China's Criminal Law being used to prosecute individuals, whose religious activities are equated with "separatism", leading to the fact that monks and nuns make up approximately 44% of the political prisoner population in Tibet;
Amendment 430 #
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 142 Tibetans have resorted to self-immolations to protest against the lack of freedom and stringent crackdown in Tibet, and rejects the conflation of self-immolations with terrorism, as no Chinese citizen has ever been injured by the acts of self- immolators; deplores the recently passed criminalisation measures of self- immolations aimed at punishing those allegedly associated with self-immolators, including friends, families and even entire communities, leading to charges of up to "intentional homicide", representing a violation of international law, which prohibits collective punishment; 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 since 2006 into so called "New Socialist Village" without access to education, health and economic prospect; deeply concerned of the continued transfer of Han Chinese population transfer into Tibetan inhabited areas and China's plan to increase urban population in Tibet by 30 percent by end of 2020;
Amendment 443 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Deplores the fact that the Chinese government continues to impose hard-line policies in Tibet and rejects the Dalai Lama's "Middle Way Approach" aimed at the achievement of genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people within the borders of the People's Republic of China, considering it as a way to split China and achieve independence, as outlined in its White Paper on Tibet of April 2015; the Middle way Approach seeks neither independence nor separation from China. It calls for a genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people within the framework of China's constitution. It provides the basis for a realistic and sustainable political solution to the issue of Tibet; is concerned about the fact that the definition of "terrorist" included in China's draft law on counter-terrorism, if not substantially revised, may apply to Tibetans advocating for a different policy approach or carrying out religious activities outside state-controlled institutions, and that the conflation of "terrorism" with religious "extremism" in the law gives scope for the penalization of almost any peaceful expression of Tibetan culture, religion or identity that may differ from those of the state;
Amendment 457 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Deplores the denial of access to medical care for prisoners. Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a prominent Tibetan lama who has been a prisoner since 2002 and sentenced to 20-years-in prisoned, died on 13 July 2015 due to denial of access to medical care. 10 Tibetans similarly died in Chinese prisons or immediately following their release in 2014 because of torture in detention and denial of medical care;