Debate contribution: St Patrick's Day Visit: Contradiction with Position on China
Debate contribution by Mr Jon Burrows on .
- MLA
- Mr Jon Burrows
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 16 February 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- St Patrick's Day Visit: Contradiction with Position on China
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5391387
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Text
That is really a non-answer, because you are still prepared to have the Economy Minister go to China, a regime that drips in blood, crushes dissent, is a humanitarian abuser and oppresses Christians. You are happy to have a senior member of your party shake the bloody hand of Beijing, but you give false reasons for why you will not attend the White House.
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Part of an exchange
This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 2044/22-27.
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