It’s Time to Chart a Right Course for UK-China Relations
The rapprochement in UK-China relations should be regarded as a welcome development in an increasingly tumultuous global environment.
The rapprochement in UK-China relations should be regarded as a welcome development in an increasingly tumultuous global environment.
If this new Labour government is to demonstrate its maturity and capability after years of juvenility and naivety, then resetting its relations with China is imperative.
British people from all walks of life and backgrounds have been increasingly taking Chinese New Year to their hearts. It has become part of our culture and calendar.
Companies in the U.K. and China join hands to achieve the two countries’ net zero targets.
The GCI stresses the importance of cultural exchanges, which has moved from the sideline to the center stage of international relations.
It is thus practical for London to partner with Beijing on intersecting challenges, help dial up strategic trust, and utilize their collective economic heft for the benefit of relations.
U.S. firms greatly benefit from China’s growth and development through the immense value semiconductor sales bring to U.S. chip giants.
There are issues that concern everybody, like climate change, the need for sustainability, and such major public health issues as the COVID-19 pandemic, on which our two countries need to work together on good terms.
The U.K. is repeatedly cutting off its own nose to spite its face to appease American preferences. Doing so undermines jobs, investment and opportunities with one of its most critical trade and investment partners. This costly decision has put America first and British workers last.
Having pursued the path of Brexit and having chosen an aggressive response to the crisis in Ukraine, Britain simply cannot afford any more saber rattling in its economic outlook and must seek to moderate its respective positions.
For Britain and China during Queen Elizabeth II’s long time on the throne, despite often huge challenges and great difficulties in the bilateral dialogue, the two sides never stopped talking to each other.