China: Threat to UK Interests - 2nd December 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate China: Threat to UK Interests.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-12-02/debates/D6C0DE0B-5F45-4241-9B3C-EE88EA46CB26/ChinaThreattoUKInterests

Yvette Cooper (Labour)

China poses a series of national security threats, including on espionage, cyber-attacks, transnational repression and support for Russia in its war against Ukraine. We challenge China robustly in relation to all those threats. China is also our third-largest trading partner, and a country that we need to co-operate with on international issues, including trade and climate change.

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Yvette Cooper (Labour)

My hon. Friend is right that we need to both strengthen our security against threats from China, including cyber-threats and issues around transnational repression and economic security, such as the supply of critical minerals across the world, and engage with China on issues around trade and climate change. That, frankly, is in our national interests, and we would be letting the country down if we did not engage on both security and the economy in our national interests.

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