At a virtual AGM last Sunday, South Cambridgeshire Councillor Sarah Cheung-Johnson was unanimously elected as the new Chair Chinese LibDems for 2022. The meeting was well attended including by members from the Korean and Vietnamese diaspora communities.
"I enjoy promoting diversity and inclusivity and good governance and would love to be part of the process of governance of the party. I hope that we fill all the positions available for representation from London.
Emma YuLian was recently co-opted into the Chinese Liberal Democrats' core team as Treasurer-elect. She speaks with CLD's co-founder Merlene Emerson about what drew her to the party and what advice she has for those interested in getting more involved in British politics.
"On the 13th of January, MI5 released a Security Service Interference Alert (SSIA) to the House of Commons followed by some sensational headlines from the UK press, using words such as "alleged Chinese agent has infiltrated Parliament … Chinese secret agent seeking to influence British politics …. suspected Communist spy at the heart of British democracy."
Editor: Welcome to Chinese Liberal Democrats, founded in 2006 to reach out to Chinese, East and SE Asians in the UK. Please tell us a bit of your background and cultural heritage, when you came to the UK and what you are doing at the moment professionally?
Last week Henry Dyer, a staff member in UK's Parliament and a political journalist made a formal complaint against Labour's Neil Coyle MP, resulting in the MP being suspended over racist comments and being banned from the Parliamentary estate for 6 months.