China’s president Xi Jinping in Manchester as part of UK visit

Veteran dissidents Wang Dan and Wu’er Kaixi said in a statement Saturday that Britain appeared to have jettisoned human rights concerns in favor of securing business deals.

His remarks were seen as a boost to the campaign in favour of the United Kingdom remaining within the 28-state union ahead of the in-out referendum that Mr Cameron has promised by the end of 2017.

The man then goes on to tell the demonstrators that many people in England are unhappy with the welcome that Prime Minister David Cameron has afforded to President Jinping.

Aside from Great Britain, President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang have also visited many other European countries this year, thus showing China’s willingness to further develop its relations with Europe. A spokeswoman for Cameron said Monday that “nothing is off the table”.

Xi also paid a visit to City’s state-of-the-art football academy.

Xi, a chemical engineering graduate, visited the National Graphine Institute at the University of Manchester-meeting there with Vice-Chancellor Nancy Rothwell and Nobel Prize winners Kostya Novolselov and Andre Geim-where he learned all about the huge potential of the new-found material. Russian Federation has stepped up a military intervention in Syria that it says targets the Islamic State group but that Britain and others say seeks to prop up Assad.

“Kate is wearing Chinese red to greet the President and his wife”, trumpeted a headline in the state-owned China Daily newspaper, a reference to the wife of Prince William, second in line to the throne of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, who hosted the dinner.

One was a memorandum of understanding – said to be worth £1 billion – for the creation of a “Garden of Ideas” in China, which appeared to be a repeat of something signed at a Chinese investment conference in London in 2014.

Britain will be China’s “partner of choice” in the West, Prime Minister David Cameron declared Wednesday, as China demonstrated its commitment by putting down a 6 billion-pound ($9.3 billion) stake in the U.K.’s first nuclear power plant since the 1980s.

They will observe a training match and meet players who helped build the city’s footballing legacy, including former United player-turned pundit Gary Neville and former City stars Patrick Vieira and Mike Summerbee. The Ministry of Education has taken the lead in organizing the games based on a national strategy for school soccer.

The two leaders will also visit Manchester Airport, where Hainan Airlines will announce a new route between the city and China, the first direct flight from the United Kingdom outside London.

Cheering supporters of Mr Xi – apparently partly stage managed by officials – again outnumbered protesters in Manchester demanding action to improve China’s record on human rights.