Post by account_disabled on Dec 20, 2023 2:24:59 GMT -7
At the time thenCh ancellor George Osborne said the UK had cemented its position as Chinas best partner in West and Mr Cameron took Chinese President Xi Jinping for a pint in his local pub. However since then tensions over a number of issues have seen relations fall to a new low. The UK government has criticised China for its treatment of Uyghur Muslims living in the country and in it banned the Chinese company Huawei from UKs G infrastructure citing security concerns.
The same year China banned five MPs including former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith accusing them of spreading lies and disinformation. Truss Mobile App Development Service was reportedly planning to recategorise China as a threat to the UK. Rishi Sunak has resisted calls to go that far but in he said that the golden era of relations with China was over and said attempts to build closer ties had been nave.
Mr Cleverlys visit comes as the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee criticised the governments approach to China in a new report on UK policy in the IndoPacific. The report describes the activities of the Chinese Communist Party as a threat to the UK and its interests. It raises concerns about a lack of coherence in the governments approach and calls for an unclassified version of its China strategy to be published to provide guidance to the public and private sectors.
The same year China banned five MPs including former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith accusing them of spreading lies and disinformation. Truss Mobile App Development Service was reportedly planning to recategorise China as a threat to the UK. Rishi Sunak has resisted calls to go that far but in he said that the golden era of relations with China was over and said attempts to build closer ties had been nave.
Mr Cleverlys visit comes as the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee criticised the governments approach to China in a new report on UK policy in the IndoPacific. The report describes the activities of the Chinese Communist Party as a threat to the UK and its interests. It raises concerns about a lack of coherence in the governments approach and calls for an unclassified version of its China strategy to be published to provide guidance to the public and private sectors.