human rights and Beijing’s obligations toward the United Kingdom to respect the Sino-British agreement on Hong Kong. While this may be in part due to the United Kingdom’s relatively weakening position, these changes have coincided with Chinese efforts to influence British foreign policy. Influence activities by China

rohibit or discourage facilitating payments, which the United States has done regularly.’ In addition, other countries’ foreign bribery laws, such as the United Kingdom’s, may not contain an exception for facilitating payments.' Individuals and companies should therefore be aware that although true facilitating paymen