About the Book
Benedict Rogers first went to China at age 18 to teach English for six months in Qingdao (1992), three years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. That opened the door to a thirty-year adventure with China, from teaching English in schools and hospitals to working as a journalist in Hong Kong documenting the plight of refugees escaping from Beijing-backed satellite dictatorships and then campaigning for human rights in China. In 2017, on the orders of Beijing, he was denied entry to Hong Kong, 20 years after he had moved to the city and began his working life as a journalist and activist. This book tells the story of his fight for freedom for the peoples of China and neighbouring countries Myanmar and North Korea and sets out how a global movement for human rights in China is emerging and what the free world should do next. It describes the importance of the "China Nexus" in the author's journey and geopolitics and its challenges. Pioneering international inquiries into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, the genocide of the Uyghurs and global action for Hong Kong, as well as highlighting the Vatican's silence, the author has been at the heart of advocacy for human rights in China in recent years. Rogers takes the readers on a journey through some of the leaders and participants in the Human rights activities that China has suppressed since its inception in 1949. He goes on to dispute and lays to rest all of the specious claims by the tyrants in Beijing that all Chinese citizens are equal and are afforded human and civil rights. Currently, the regime is engaged in re-education, cultural assimilation, and multiple genocides, leading to better
citizens for China and the world if one believes Chinese officials.
About the Author :
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).
Review :
“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.”
"Benedict Rogers, the dedicated founder of Hong Kong Watch, is a serious China watcher. Here he documents the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and the steady dissolution of the rule of law there, setting it against the backdrop of the grievous human rights abuses in China, including the slow genocide of the Uyghurs. He argues that the ‘golden era’ of relations between the UK and China is now over, and that this emergent superpower is a growing challenge to the democratic world. A powerful and alarming analysis.”
“Benedict Rogers has done the world an extremely important service by documenting and exposing the repression of the Chinese Communist Party and the Xi dictatorship in his new book, The China Nexus. Through fifty trips to China and eighty interviews with exiles, dissidents, and even the Dalai Lama himself, Rogers takes us forensically through the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party to the indisputable conclusion that the Chinese government must face international justice for these crimes. There are very few people in the world who have the experience, knowledge, and authority of Rogers on China, and this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know what’s really happening there.”
Bill Browder, author of Red Notice: How I Became Putin’s No. 1 Enemy and Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath
“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.”
“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 happening in that country today" – Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former UK Foreign Secretary
“Benedict Rogers knows the Asia Pacific well and has been in the vanguard, campaigning for freedom, security and human rights. His strong sense of conscience drives his dialogue with UK Parliamentarians, promoting understanding and action for those whose voices are so often silenced by authoritarian regimes. The "China Nexus" will be a textbook for all who value the importance of freedom and human dignity at the forefront of UK China discussions.” – Catherine West MP
“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.”
“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.”
“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
