{"id":69458,"date":"2016-04-09T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a01d536686d56c6f01dbe49f561041d1"},"modified":"2016-04-09T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T09:37:47","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69458","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Philip Hammond travelled to Beijing for a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, en route to Hiroshima for the G7 Foreign Ministers\u2019 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Secretary said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As part of my wider visit to the Asia-Pacific region, my meeting in Beijing has provided an opportunity to discuss issues of mutual concern, including steel over-capacity. I urged China to accelerate its efforts to reduce levels of steel production. The UK\u2019s focus is on finding a long-term sustainable future for steel making at Port Talbot and across the UK, and I welcomed the potential interest of Chinese companies in investment in UK steel-making.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s relationship with China is a strategic partnership and we\u2019ve acknowledged on both sides that such a relationship enables us to raise difficult issues and to discuss them together. In that spirit we discussed the UK\u2019s continued concerns over the booksellers\u2019 case and Mr Lee Po.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our diplomatic and economic relationship with China is strong and delivering benefits for both countries. We are building on the global partnership established during last year\u2019s successful State Visit by President Xi Jinping, by working together closely on international challenges and strengthening our trade and investment links. Examples of our global partnership in action include new security and peacekeeping dialogues, a new fund on antimicrobial resistance, and cooperation on Syria, Iran and North Korea.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Foreign Secretary will travel to Hiroshima on the next stop of his East Asia tour, followed by Vietnam.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Secretary on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHammondMP\">@PHammondMP<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Secretary has raised the issue of over-capacity in steel production during talks with the Chinese Foreign Minister in Beijing.<\/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\/69458"}],"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=69458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}