‘Waste of time’: UK foreign secretary to visit China

UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly’s visit to China this week will be a “waste” of time, according to Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith. “This is a government that has committed genocide,” Mr Smith said. “Slave labour regularly – many of the products we buy have slave labour involved in them, they threaten to invade Taiwan regularly, they’ve invaded the South China Seas against the UN’s edicts. “They trashed the Sino-British agreement, they’re arresting peaceful democracy campaigners, they trashed the Christian churches – it goes on and on and on. “You have to be very clear and obvious to them that there are downsides to behaviour like this which is beyond the pale.”