CGTN’s Li Jianhua speaks to Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Chair of The China-Britain Business Council (CBBC)
Highlight: “We’ve had a difficult time. We’ve had five prime ministers in the UK in almost as many years. We have had a Conservative party, ridden with tensions about attitudes to China. We’ve now got a government that I think, I hope, believe, almost know will be much more pragmatic to China, of course, as every country has to be. They will be protect national security. They will promote our values. But they recognise that Britain and China need each other economically. They need each other commercially, need the cultural relationship, need the educational relationship, need the tourist relationship. So I’m very hopeful that we’re entering, I wouldn’t call it a golden era, but certainly a new era of, pragmatic cooperation. That is win win in both sides interests.”
“We have to pursue our national interests, and we have to realise that national security, which is genuine and must be protected, is not the same as America’s national superiority. There’s a difference. And, so Britain needs to stand up for its own national interests, the interests of our people, working with our European partners and, not succumb to pressure from others.”