Foreign Secretary's meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, February 2024
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference on 16th February 2024
皇冠体育app Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron, met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference.
In line with the Government鈥檚 鈥榩rotect, align, and engage鈥� approach to China, as set out in the聽, the Foreign Secretary raised a number of issues important to the UK national interest.
To support constructive engagement between the UK and China, the聽Foreign聽Ministers agreed that the聽UK and China should continue engagement across a range of聽areas.
This聽includes聽trade links; building on our existing cultural ties and links between our peoples; and working together to tackle climate change.
皇冠体育app Foreign Secretary urged China to use its influence on Iran to pressure the Houthis over their actions in the Red Sea.聽
He further stressed that Russia鈥檚 aggression against Ukraine threatens the rules based international system, which is designed to keep us all safe.
皇冠体育app Foreign Secretary also took this opportunity to unambiguously set out the UK鈥檚 position across a number of areas of disagreement, including on human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. He raised the case of British Parliamentarians sanctioned by China and reiterated his call for the release of British national Jimmy Lai.