Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Visit To United Kingdom To Boost Mutual Trade

The visit, during which Mr Xi will stay at Buckingham Palace as a guest of the Queen, is expected to herald the announcement of significant Chinese investment in British infrastructure projects, including the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear plant and the HS2 high-speed rail link between London and cities in the Midlands and northern England.

“For Britain, nuclear power is very important for the energy mix”.

“Some people are questioning the presence here, honestly, I believe they are making short-term decisions”, said the GSK CEO, noting that the company will invest more in China. It was the first time the event was marked with a parade – and came four years before the Chinese president would typically preside publicly over China’s military. Britain’s knowledge of modern Chinese culture is not yet as good as it should be, but enormous queues for exhibitions such as the British Museum’s exhibition of the Xi’an terracotta warriors show deep interest in Chinese classical culture, while China’s rise will produce increasing knowledge of China’s modern achievements.

In an e-mail to The Washington Post, William Nee, China researcher for Amnesty global in Hong Kong, said Osborne’s Xinjiang trip had been a public relations coup for Beijing, while Cameron’s efforts to ingratiate himself with the Chinese after the Dalai Lama had played into Beijing’s hands. How different the UK’s China policy from that of the US?

“We have major British universities now established in China as well, we have British schools which also set up in China, and this is very important; we need to do a lot more, for example, teaching Chinese here in the United Kingdom, as this is the way the world is going to be”, he said.

He said that during President Xi’s visit to Britain, the two sides will exchange views on regional and worldwide issues of common concern.

Blair said, “Britain really has got the opportunity to become the best western partner for China, we want to do this, this is something that crosses the whole aspects, we join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which is important”.

“Britain’s starting point on trade is pretty abysmal”. There will be criticism of Chinese investment in nuclear power.

Despite five years of economic slowdown and the recent burst of sharp market volatility, Standard Chartered still forecasts the China will average economic growth of 6.8 percent between 2010 and 2020. Thirdly, China is not evolving into a liberal democracy, unlike other emerging economies.

“I have my disagreements with my former Conservative colleagues in the coalition government but I believe that Messrs”.

The ambassador said Xi would feel offended if human rights were raised as a topic of discussion.

Xi’s statement comes two weeks after his official state visit to the United States, and addressed what China sees as issues with a global governance that is mostly dominated by the United States and the West. What we are against is to use human rights to interfere with other countries’ internal affairs and to try to impose your own system on to others, ” he told a press conference.

Osborne was criticised by human rights activists for not using a trip to the Xinjiang region to draw attention to the treatment of Muslim Uighurs.

Laura King, senior communications officer at Buckingham Palace, told China Daily, “The royal kitchen may showcase native products on the (state banquet) menu, with many fresh ingredients being sourced from the queen’s estates”.