Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab revealed that the Chinese official development assistance fund to Beijing was being cut from £18 million a year to £900,000.
The move is set to further rise up tensions between Britain and the one party communist state after they sanctioned five Tory MPs, Peers, lawyers and academics for highlighting China’s human rights abuses against the minority Muslim Uyghur community.
Mr Raab said: “The resulting portfolio marks a strategic shift, putting our aid budget to work alongside our diplomatic network, our science and technology expertise and our economic partnerships in tackling global challenges.”
He added: “In China, I have reduced FCDO’s ODA for programme delivery by 95% to £0.9m (with additional ODA in this year only to meet the contractual exit costs of former programmes). The remaining £900,000 will fund on open societies and human rights.”
The statement outlines how the nation will slash the overall aid budget from 0.7 per cent of GDP to 0.5 per cent.In 2019 Britain forked out £67.8 million for various projects in China - up from £55.6 million in 2018.
