Friday, October 23, 2015

The UK and China

British PM David Cameron and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a press conference in London. 
Both leaders expressed a strong relationship with the two nations. After their statements, they let one question for each country's media. The BBC reporter bravely asked a question. 

"Prime Minister, if you were a steelworker who had lost their job yesterday, at the same time as seeing President Xi being ferried down Whitehall in a golden carriage, how would you have felt? Is there any price that’s worth paying in order to further our business interests with China? 

And President Xi, why do you think members of the British public should be pleased to do more business with a country that is not democratic, is not transparent, and has a deeply, deeply troubling attitude towards human rights?" 

The two leaders' answers were, in short, money first. 

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