China biggest threat to global peace order; need to create a counter-narrative, says IPAC

Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China members planning on visiting Taiwan soon

Asserting that China is the biggest threat to the global peace order, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China in its latest annual meeting in Washington has agreed to create a counter-narrative against the Chinese propaganda and also send a global delegation of lawmakers to Taiwan to show their solidarity with the Taiwanese people.

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, which included members of Parliament from India as well, during their annual summit here was attended by 60 lawmakers from 30 countries, including Sujeet Kumar from the Biju Janata Dal.

"We are intending to go to Taiwan sometime in the future...MPs from different countries to show solidarity with Taiwan. Because Taiwan is a proud, vibrant, peaceful democracy. And it's really important to support Taiwan against Chinese aggression," Mr. Kumar told PTI in an interview.

In its communique, IPAC calls for greater support for Taiwan and moving critical supply chains away from China.

Observing that China is very good at creating a false narrative of its peaceful rise, Kumar said, "We know that China has sold this narrative of peaceful lives for a long time and fooled the world. Now we all know that was a mistake. The idea is to create a counter narrative to China's aggressiveness, to sensitise the world community."

"China is going to be the biggest threat to the peaceful world order, to international order. And also to ensure that China doesn't make spurious claims on the South China Sea for instance, on Indian Territory, Taiwan and also to raise awareness about what's going on in Xinjiang and Tibet,” Mr. Kumar said at the end of the two-day conference that concluded in Washington early this week.

Mr. Kumar is national convener of all-party Parliamentary forum on Tibet. It is a bipartisan Indian Parliamentary forum to raise the Tibetan issue, to help the Tibetan community living in India and also to support the peaceful struggle of the Dalai Lama.