Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

How can he take the regime's policy on human rights seriously when Amnesty International reported that more than 200 activists from the Tiananmen movement of 1989 were still in prison last year?

Will the Taoiseach veto any re-opening of arms sales from EU countries to China, not just on human rights issues, but because it is monstrous that countries such as Germany and France, while pretending to champion human rights, should be up to their necks in racketeering in the arms industry?

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