Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday had more than four hours of talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron and enjoyed fish and chips in a traditional pub, in a stroke of no-necktie diplomacy that observers say will cement the global partnership between the two countries.
The reverberations from the visit are here to stay as the trip marks a sea change in international political and economic relations.
On October 22, the fourth day of President Xi Jinping's UK visit, he visited the satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat, and attended the opening ceremony of an annual meeting of Confucius Institutes in Britain. Afterward, Xi and Cameron met at Cameron's country retreat, Chequers, which was the starting point of Xi and Cameron private meetings.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Great Britain is an important event in world politics, and it will promote world peace in the long run.
I believe that Xi’s visit to UK will further enhance soccer cooperation between the two countries.
The relationship between the UK and China, as an elevated strategic and economic partnership, has huge potential for the coming decade.
President Xi Jinping's pledge that China and the United Kingdom will build a "global comprehensive strategic partnership" in the 21st century will bring Sino-UK relations to a new level and endow bilateral ties with a significance that goes beyond bilateral scope.
President Xi Jinping's visit is set to result in 30 billion pounds ($46.2 billion) of investment in the UK.
Chinese tech company ZTE's new flagship Axon will be presented as one of the official gifts to the British government during President Xi Jinping's visit.
China and Britain issued Thursday a joint declaration on building a "global comprehensive strategic partnership for the 21st Century".
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