@RedTagAlan Taken from a Times article, this might be of interest to you.
The single biggest client of Lord Mandelson’s lobbying firm was a company linked to the Chinese military, according to leaked documents.
Last year Global Counsel, in which Mandelson retained shares while he was the UK ambassador to Washington, received £2.24 million from WuXi AppTec, a Shanghai-listed life science company. In 2024, when Mandelson’s appointment was announced, it received £1.42 million.
As a result, the company topped a list of “biggest clients by revenue” shared among senior executives at Global Counsel, co-founded by the peer in 2010.
The Pentagon recently described WuXi as a company engaged in assisting the Chinese military and urged Congress to add it to a list of companies that pose security risks, according to Bloomberg.
Its alleged links to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and human rights abuses in Xinjiang long predated its work with the company.
Ge Li, WuXi’s chair and chief executive, signed an open letter in 2024 which denied the company posed a national security risk to any country. “We strongly object to blanket allegations and preemptive actions against our company without due process,” the letter added.
The disclosures come as senior government sources said it had been the peer’s foreign links that accounted for the decision by the UK Security Vetting agency to recommend against his appointment, rather than his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
https://archive.ph/pGrbE