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China: Foreign Relations

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of the People’s Republic of China. (309195)

Mr. Ivan Lewis: I refer the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex to “The UK and China: A framework for engagement” that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs launched in January 2009. A copy of this is available on our UK in China website at:

http://ukinchina.fco.gov.uk/en/

In this we set out three overarching objectives:

(a) to get the best for Britain from China’s rise;

(b) to foster China’s emergence as a responsible global player; and

(c) to promote sustainable development, modernisation and internal reform within China.