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Biografisk notat
Benedict Rogers is a British human rights activist and journalist based in London. His work focuses on Asia, specialising particularly on Burma, North Korea and Indonesia. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Huffington Post and has appeared on BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and other many others. Rogers is the co-founder and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party’s human rights commission and the co-founder of the International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea. He is also the East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide and the founder of Hong Kong Watch and a member of the advisory group of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) and an advisor to the World Uyghur Congress. David Patrick Paul Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool, KCSG, KCMCO (born 15 March 1951) is a British politician. He is a former Liberal Party and later Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament who has sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 1997 when he was made a life peer. Nathan Law Kwun-chung (Chinese: 羅冠聰; born 13 July 1993) is an activist and politician from Hong Kong. As a former student leader, he has been chairman of the Representative Council of the Lingnan University Students' Union (LUSU), acting president of the LUSU, and secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS).“The Chinese Communist Party has a formidable foe in Benedict Rogers, just as the Chinese people have no better friend. His heartfelt, deeply researched, and powerfully argued book should be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the threat we face—and what we must do to protect ourselves.”
- Edward Lucas, Journalist
“I know Benedict Rogers and hold in high regard his work to help protect the people of Hong Kong from tyranny and the loss of their traditional freedom. His book also covers the plight of the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, and others who are being persecuted at this very moment. I hope his book will be read by all who yearn for freedom and the rule of law in China, and who wish to understand what has happened and is hap-pening in that country today.”
- Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former British foreign secretary
praise for THE CHINA NEXUS
“The China Nexus is one of those rare books that very clearly records the political envi-ronment in China over the past thirty years. Benedict Rogers, from the perspective of a Westerner and in a very detailed manner, documents this authoritarian country’s political orientation and agendas through his personal experience. It is often very difficult to comprehend the society of an authoritarian regime like China through its history, its ideology, and the Communist Party’s behaviour. While almost 20 percent of the world’s total population belongs to that society, the West has in effect a very limited, and often distorted and illusory understanding, of it.
Benedict Rogers went to China for the first time when he was a teenager. In The China Nexus, he connects his experience of the past thirty years with political events in China and covers almost all the political topics, ranging from Tibet and Xinjiang to Hong Kong and Taiwan. His concrete, authentic, and reliable narrative provides readers with the precious pos-sibility to understand China. Now that there is open confrontation between China and the West once again, Benedict Rogers’ comprehensive account is an invaluable source of knowledge that helps us understand today’s world in its whole complexity.”
- Ai Weiwei, Artist and Activist
“Benedict Rogers has worked tirelessly and bravely to defend the rights and freedoms
of those people in China unable to speak for themselves because of the Chinese
Communist Party’s brutal repression. His book is another act in his brave defence of
freedom. It should be read by all those active in government and politics who seek
meek accommodation with this brutal regime in the hope of stronger business ties.
Appeasement of such dictatorial regimes didn’t work in the 1930s and doesn’t work
with the CCP now. This book shows us why, from genocide in Xinjiang to forced
labour in Tibet and from the persecution of Christians to the tyranny in Hong Kong,
the brutality grows. How many times must we relearn the lesson that freedom comes
at a price? This book shows us what happens when we turn away in the free world.”
- Sir Iain Duncan Smith, member of Parliament
“Riveting reading. When the Chinese government decided to extinguish the possibility
of independent thought in Hong Kong, Benedict Rogers was the first foreigner
they targeted. On Beijing’s orders, Rogers was expelled by the Hong Kong police
and, more recently, threatened with arrest for ‘jeopardizing state security.’ Why is
he so feared in China’s halls of power? What makes him particularly dangerous to
the regime? Look no further than this extraordinary book. The China Nexus blends
deep research, epic sweep, and beautiful writing to give us a harrowing account of the
Chinese Communist Party’s totalitarian quest to re-engineer human society. Now
more than ever, we need a book like this to remind us that a war of ideas is underway,
and while the stakes are nothing less than the future of the world, a single defender
of freedom can make all the difference.”
- Ian Easton, Author
“Benedict Rogers’ credentials as a human rights campaigner are impressive. In this
book, he takes us through the intriguing story of where his commitment comes
from. At the heart of his campaigning are the spreading tentacles of the Chinese
Communist Party, which he has experienced at first hand. It is this immediate experience
that gives The China Nexus its humanity and fascinating insights into how the
dictatorship operates. Rogers has the kind of curiosity which leads him to run down
the memorable details that bring this story to life. The net result is a compelling book
that will be of great interest to anyone seriously concerned with the consequences of
the world’s largest dictatorship.”
—stephen vines, author of Defying the Dragon:
Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship
- Stephen Vines, Author