{"id":196257,"date":"2023-11-25T05:12:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T05:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=196257"},"modified":"2023-11-25T05:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T05:12:56","slug":"cameron-defends-pro-china-policy-as-pm-and-urges-uk-to-engage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/cameron-defends-pro-china-policy-as-pm-and-urges-uk-to-engage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron defends pro-China policy as PM and urges UK to engage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>New Foreign Secretary David Cameron defends his pro-China policy as Prime Minister and urges Britain to &#8216;engage&#8217; with Beijing<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David Cameron, now Foreign Secretary, said UK should &#8216;engage&#8217; with Beijing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cameron heralded a &#8216;golden era&#8217; in UK-China relations when PM in 2015<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Remarks risk angering hawkish Tory backbenchers<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David Cameron has defended his pro-China policy as prime minister and said Britain should &#8216;engage&#8217; with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>In his first full interview since becoming Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron said he had been right to try to pursue a new &#8216;golden era&#8217; in relations with the superpower.<\/p>\n<p>His comments are likely to enrage many Tory MPs, some of them sanctioned by China and who fear he could seek to soften the Government&#8217;s stance toward the communist regime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/25\/00\/78217673-0-image-a-51_1700873581587.jpg\" height=\"453\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping made a state visit to Britain in 2015. The visit was widely seen as the high-point of David Cameron&#8217;s &#8216;golden era&#8217; of ties with Beijing<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/25\/00\/78217679-0-image-m-54_1700873601879.jpg\" height=\"513\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>David Cameron visited Beijing in 2018, while he was out-of-office. While there he congratulated the Chinese Communist Party for the &#8216;success&#8217; of its National Congress and President Xi&#8217;s flagship Belt and Road Initiative\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Read More: Cameron&#8217;s Return Welcomed by Chinese State Media<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/25\/00\/78217675-0-image-a-55_1700873785520.jpg\" height=\"185\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in his BBC interview, he risked angering pro-Brexit Tory MPs by saying Britain should engage more closely with the EU on foreign, defence and security policies.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Cameron, who is in the Middle East, said: &#8216;When I became prime minister, the greatest need was for Britain to grow again, trade again, with exports to help our businesses around the world. I loaded up planes, I took them to India, I took them to China, I took them to Africa to get the economy moving again.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He said that China had become &#8216;much more aggressive, much more assertive&#8217; since he left office and &#8216;security and protection&#8217; were now much more important.<\/p>\n<p>But he added: &#8216;Engaging China is one part of the approach we need to take. Not least, because China is a fifth of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re not going to solve challenges like climate change, unless we engage. And hopefully I can be a part of that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He has met both Israeli and Palestinian leaders on his tour.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12789279\/New-Foreign-Secretary-David-Cameron-defends-pro-China-policy-Prime-Minister-urges-Britain-engage-Beijing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Foreign Secretary David Cameron defends his pro-China policy as Prime Minister and urges Britain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":196256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28134],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cameron defends pro-China policy as PM and urges UK to engage - Tokens Talk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/cameron-defends-pro-china-policy-as-pm-and-urges-uk-to-engage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cameron defends pro-China policy as PM and urges UK to engage - 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