“Continuing a lot of questions about Gui Minhai-meeting”
“the Question marks remain on the much talked about meeting of the imprisoned Swedish-chinese the publisher Gui Minhai at a hotel in Stockholm.”
“neither the members of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs was so much wiser after having been informed by the cabinet secretary Annika Söder (S).”
“Minister for foreign affairs Margot Wallström (S), was summoned to the foreign affairs committee to answer questions about what really happened at the meeting with the Swedish Kinaambassadören Anna Lindstedt, Gui Minhais daughter Angela Gui, and chinese representatives. But the foreign minister was on the move and was replaced by his cabinet secretary.”
“Before the members went into the meeting room they had to give up their mobile phones, and for safety reasons no unauthorised person would be able to listen. But so much new information was not given.”
“– There are more questions than answers, which is the result of this meeting, ” says Lars Adaktusson, foreign policy spokesperson for the christian democrats.”
“He wanted to have answers on why the state department has added its own internal investigation on the ice and what the foreign office knew about the meeting. First, it was said that no one had known the ambassador’s meeting, later it was changed to that no one involved with the case knew about the Lindstedts plans.”
“– Obviously, the minister and cabinet before the committee made statements which are not true, either because they want to hide the facts, or because you have a bad surface, ” says Adaktusson.”
“Afterwards to answer Annika Söder, most of the questions that she can’t comment on the events on the basis of Säpos ongoing investigation. She would not answer how Sweden’s relationship with China changed.”
“TT: How has the controversy around the meeting affected the situation for the Gui Minhai?”
“– It is impossible to say how it has affected his situation. We continue relentlessly to try to resolve the situation, for it is not reasonable that a Swedish citizen imprisoned in this way. We are in our full right to try to solve out the issue, regardless of the events that I can’t comment on, ” says South.”
“Hans Wallmark, foreign policy spokesperson for the conservative party notes that the committee now has a standing invitation to Margot Wallström.”
“I think it’s important to get up as many cards as possible on the table, and presenting them publicly, but I also respect the fact that there is a Säpoutredning,” says Wallmark.”
“On a broader level, he calls for a new vision of the relationship with China.”
” We are all basically naive. It needed a new, deeper, more nyansrik view of China. All of us – in politics, business, society – need to understand what China is. I think that we sometimes have been led by China is on the path to becoming the world’s largest economy, and we therefore ignore that it is already the world’s largest one-party state, with all that implies, ” says Wallmark.”
“At the foreign MINISTRY is already working on a new strategy on china.”
“– We will seek a consensus broad in the parliament about this, ” says Annika Söder.”
“February 3: Angela Gui, the daughter of the Swedish-chinese the publisher who is detained in China, said in an interview with svenska Dagbladet that she had a meeting in Sweden with chinese representatives regarding their father.”
“13 February: Angela Gui writes on his blog about the meeting in Stockholm took place at the end of January on the invitation of the Swedish China-ambassador Anna Lindstedt. The foreign MINISTRY says that the investigation of Anna Lindstedt and stated that it had knowledge of the meeting, the first in the post, which is listed as one of the reasons that Lindstedt now being investigated.”
“14 February: the Fbi has stated that it will conduct a preliminary investigation after the meeting become known. The investigation, led by prosecutors at the riksenheten for national security.”
“February 15: Minister for foreign affairs Margot Wallström commenting on the criticism of Sweden’s China ambassador. Wallström said that the foreign MINISTRY had not been aware of the meeting and that you look very seriously at the incident.”
“February 16: foreign office clarifies that no one who works with the Gui Minhai-case had knowledge of the meeting. The foreign MINISTRY does not want to answer the question then, if there are other people, and what it is, who had knowledge of the meeting, which took place in Sweden.”
“The Swedish publisher of the Gui Minhai ran a publishing company, Mighty Current and the bookstore Causeway Bay in Hong kong. The publisher gave out sensitive books with corrosive satire about the chinese leaders until the five employees disappeared at the end of 2015.”
“Gui Minhai disappeared on 17 October 2015, when he left his holiday home in Pattaya in Thailand. In October was reported to have been released.”
“In January 2016, the state-controlled chinese tv-channel CCTV”
“Neither of the daughter of Angela Gui, or someone else in his presence, had before the so-called recognition heard of that Gui Minhai would have been involved in any accident.”
“He was released in October of the same year, after serving the punishment, according to the chinese authorities. According to his daughter he was after it in a milder form of house arrest in the city of Ningbo, where police officers followed him as soon as he passed out.”
“On 20 January last year, travelling to the Gui Minhai on the train in the company of two Swedish diplomats to visit the doctor at the Swedish embassy since he showed symptoms of ALS. During a stop stepped ten plainclothes police officers on board and brought him away, according to the daughter.”
“Sweden, the EU and various organizations have criticized China’s actions against Gui Minhai.”