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Chinaโ€™s ambassador to the UK has been barred from Parliament after British lawmakers sanctioned by the regime expressed outrage over his scheduled visit.

Zheng Zeguang was invited to a House of Commons reception on Wednesday, hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on China, The Telegraph reported.

But he has now been banned from setting foot in Parliament after the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament intervened.

The Chinese regime imposed sanctions on nine British individualsโ€”including politicians, lawyers, and an academicโ€”in retaliation for UK sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the alleged abuse of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Among the sanctioned were five Conservative MPsโ€”Tom Tugendhat, Iain Duncan Smith, Neil Oโ€™Brien, Tim Loughton, and Nusrat Ghaniโ€”and two members of the House of Lordsโ€”Lord David Alton, a cross-bencher, and Labour peer Baroness Helena Kennedy.

But the APPG on China still extended an invitation to Zheng, who became Beijingโ€™s ambassador in London in June, to its summer party on the Commons terrace pavilion overlooking the Thames.

Last week, some of the sanctioned lawmakers wrote to the Speakers in protest against the invitation, the BBC reported.

They said it would be โ€œunthinkableโ€ that โ€œthe prime representative of the Chinese government in the UK is still apparently free to come to Westminster and to use facilities here as a mouthpiece for his regimeโ€ even after Parliament itself has been directly targeted by the regime.

In response to the protest, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, said: โ€œI regularly hold meetings with ambassadors from across the world to establish enduring ties between countries and parliamentarians. But I do not feel itโ€™s appropriate for the ambassador for China to meet on the Commons estate and in our place of work when his country has imposed sanctions against some of our members.โ€

Byย Alexander Zhang

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