Clipped from : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/10/now-china-illusion-ending-canthe-west-revive-love-freedom/ The CCP’s propaganda is wearing increasingly thin in Britain, but that will not solve our larger problems There they were on Thursday, the three Huawei senior executives in a Zoom-talk with MPs. Greg Clark, chairman of the Commons Science and Technology Committee, asked them whether , in their positions, they were free to express their views. “Very much so,” replied Jeremy Thompson, vice-chairman of Huawei UK , brightly. So what did he think of the new Hong Kong security law imposed by Beijing, asked Mr Clark, sweetly. Mr Thompson coloured slightly: “I don’t think [saying anything] would be consistent with my role with Huawei in this forum,” he answered. His two colleagues claimed the same freedom, but, like him, declined to exercise it. It was a comical encapsulation of the problem of British engagement with all organisations ultimately controlled by the ...