{"id":38293,"date":"2014-01-29T11:33:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T11:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=301848f3d6279e3163e00b94e2cc8125"},"modified":"2014-01-29T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T11:33:05","slug":"news-story-chinese-new-year-2014-david-camerons-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=38293","title":{"rendered":"News story: Chinese New Year 2014: David Cameron\u2019s message"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rVrWtL85ooA\">Chinese New Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full transcript is below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019d like to send my warmest wishes to everyone around the world celebrating Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n<p>As the celebrations get underway \u2013 and cities across the globe are lit up with fireworks and parades \u2013 this is a good moment to reflect on Britain\u2019s relationship with China.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a relationship based on deep and enduring ties between our 2 countries.<\/p>\n<p>One part of this is of course economic \u2013 and last year I was delighted to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/uk-and-china-building-a-long-term-relationship\">Britain\u2019s largest ever trade delegation to China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese economy is once again set to become the world\u2019s largest later this century, a position it has held for 18 of the past 20 centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Britain meanwhile is growing faster than almost any other country in the West \u2013 and is more open to Chinese investment than any other.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why in the years to come I want our 2 countries to continue working closely together for the mutual benefit of all our people.<\/p>\n<p>But our relationship goes much deeper than economics.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great \u2013 for example \u2013 that so many Chinese students have the opportunity to come and study here at British universities.<\/p>\n<p>And these celebrations are a reminder too of the richness and vibrancy of Chinese culture here in the UK, and on this New Year I want to pay tribute to the incredible contribution that the British Chinese community makes to this country.<\/p>\n<p>So let me once again wish you a Happy New Year \u2013 and every possible success for the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Xin nian kuai le.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister has sent his warmest wishes to everyone around the world celebrating Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}