Episode 34 - Peter Humphrey - The man who loved China, Part 1

Peter Humphrey, The Man Who Loved China


The Pack and Peter go through his history through his
imprisonment in a Chinese gulag for the crime of investigating
the wrong person.   Sit back have a stiff drink and
cancel that trip to the CCP.


Peter spent 46 years in business, education, media,
investigations, and philanthropy in China. His story is something
everyone needs to hear not because of the tragedy of it, Peter
does not want you to feel sorry for him. It should be a
cautionary tale. His story should be an alarm for anyone who
thinks Western values mean anything to the CCP.  


He currently wears many hats. He’s a political analyst,
journalist, commentator, documentary adviser, and expert witness
focusing on business in China. Peter has worked with Harvard
University, King's College London, and RUSI. He has spoken at
many universities and think tanks. He is a contributor to The
Diplomat, Sunday Times, and Financial Times, and has advised many
news outlets on China stories and documentaries.


Peter is a strident advocate campaigning against the PRC practice
of forced televised confessions and donates his time to mentoring
families of arbitrarily imprisoned foreigners in China. . What he
may be best known for is when he and his wife were arbitrarily
imprisoned in Shanghai for two years in 2013-2015 on false
charges related to their work for GSK as a due diligence and
anti-fraud consultancy.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-w-humphrey-


https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/asia/peter-humphrey-china-prisoners-intl-hnk/index.html


Recent activity: 4 Feb 2021: Successfully campaigned against
Chinese Communist-Party owned TV CGTN leading to UK regulator
Ofcom stripping CGTN's UK license, which had been illegally held.
A historical first. 6 Dec 2020: Featured in a long article by CNN
spotlighting arbitrary detention of foreigners in China and my
pro bono role in mentoring their families. 6 July 2020:
Successfully complained and campaigned against Chinese
Communist-Party-owned TV CGTN over it airing forced confessions.
UK regulator Ofcom upheld my complaint. Fines were subsequently
imposed in March 2021, A historical first. April 2020: Testified,
by invitation, to the UK Conservative Party Human Rights
Commission, on forced prison labor and forced confessions in
China. June 2019: Successfully testified as an expert witness
against the extradition of a Chinese national from Sweden to
China.


Recent articles: Peter Humphrey was once locked up in China. Now
he advises other prisoners and their families how to take on
Beijing, CNN, 14 Dec 2020.


Forced prison labor has foreign prisoners in China packing
Christmas cards for Tesco and oats for Quakers. Exclusive.
(Sunday Times, 22 & 29 Dec 2019, 19 Jan 2020)


My Life Inside a Chinese Prison, by Peter Humphrey (Financial
Times, 16 Feb 2018)
https://www.ft.com/content/db8b9e36-1119-11e8-940e-08320fc2a277?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a#myft:notification:instant-email:content


 


Recent Lectures and Speeches: * Cambridge University Human Rights
Law Society 17 Feb 2020, "Shanghaied". * Oxford University China
Centre, 18 Oct 2019, "Shanghaied: China from Inside" * Council on
Foreign Relations, 18 June 2018 Washington DC, "Trapped in China"