London
\nBritish Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt will meet his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Monday to discuss cooperation between the two countries on his first major overseas trip since he replaced Boris Johnson earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Hunt and Wang Yi, China\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, are expected to discuss free trade, enforcing sanctions on North Korea and how Britain and China can work together on global challenges such as climate change, Britain\u2019s Foreign Office said.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of the visit, Hunt said that as Britain leaves the European Union it was committed to deepening its partnership with China.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UK-China Strategic Dialogue is an important opportunity to intensify our cooperation on shared challenges in international affairs, ranging from global free trade to non-proliferation and environmental challenges, under the UK-China Global Partnership and \u2018Golden Era\u2019 for UK-China relations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Britain is trying to reinvent itself as a global trading nation after it voted in 2016 to leave the EU, and China, the world\u2019s second largest economy, is high on the list of countries with which it wants to sign a free trade agreement.<\/p>\n
Hunt said he would seek to build on Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s visit to China in February, when she secured commercial deals worth 9 billion pounds ($12 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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