– having regard to the report of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) on
working conditions, issued on 30 January 2018 and entitled ‘Access Denied –
Surveillance, harassment and intimidation as reporting conditions in China deteriorate’,
– having regard to EU Statement - Item 4 issued at the 37th session of the UN Human
Rights Council on 13 March 2018 entitled ‘Human rights situation that requires the
Council’s attention’,
– having regard to the 41st EP-China Inter-Parliamentary Meeting, which took place in
Beijing in May 2018,
– having regard to its resolutions on China, in particular those of 2 February 2012 on the EU
foreign policy towards the BRICS and other emerging powers: objectives and strategies1,
of 23 May 2012 on EU and China: Unbalanced Trade?2, of 14 March 2013 on nuclear
threats and human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea3, of 5 February
2014 on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies4, of 17 April 2014 on the
situation in North Korea5, of 21 January 2016 on North Korea6, and of 13 December 2017
on the Annual Report on the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy
(CFSP)7,
– having regard to its resolutions of 7 September 2006 on EU-China relations8, of
5 February 2009 on trade and economic relations with China9, of 14 March 2013 on EUChina relations10, of 9 October 2013 on the EU-China negotiations for a bilateral
investment agreement11 and on EU-Taiwan trade relations12, and of 16 December 2015 on
EU-China relations13, and to its recommendation of 13 December 2017 to the Council, the
Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the
Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on Hong Kong, 20 years after handover14,
– having regard to its human rights resolutions of 27 October 2011 on Tibet, in particular
self-immolation by nuns and monks15, of 14 June 2012 on the human rights situation in
Tibet16, of 12 December 2013 on organ harvesting in China17, of 15 December 2016 on
the cases of the Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Academy and of Ilham Tohti18, of 16 March
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OJ C 239 E, 20.8.2013, p. 1.
OJ C 264 E, 13.9.2013, p. 33.
OJ C 36, 29.1.2016, p. 123.
OJ C 93, 24.3.2017, p. 93.
OJ C 443, 22.12.2017, p. 83.
Texts adopted, P8_TA(2016)0024.
Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0493.
OJ C 305 E, 14.12.2006, p. 219.
OJ C 67 E, 18.3.2010, p. 132.
OJ C 36, 29.1.2016, p. 126.
OJ C 181, 19.5.2016, p. 45.
OJ C 181, 19.5.2016, p. 52.
OJ C 399, 24.11.2017, p. 92.
Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0495.
OJ C 131 E, 8.5.2013, p. 121.
OJ C 332 E, 15.11.2013, p. 69.
OJ C 468, 15.12.2016, p. 208.
Texts adopted, P8_TA(2016)0505.