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He said: 'Welcome to the Royal Gallery. Mr President. We have had no fewer than four prominent daughters and sons of Asia in our Parliament in the last three years, starting with Aung Sang Suu Kyi of Burma – the Nobel peace prize winner, democracy champion and international symbol of the innate human right of freedom.
'Your visit here today, Mr President, reinforces the links between the United Kingdom and China. Those links are social and personal as well as economic and political and all the stronger for that.'
'This trip should provide the means for both sides to understand each other better, the Chinese people have many friends in this Parliament. Those friends are familiar with what you, Mr President, have described as the Chinese dream and what many others have referred to as a second Chinese revolution.'
He continued: 'Your country is engaged in an experience and an experiment without equal in history. You are attempting to complete an industrial revolution which took Britain the best part of two centuries in little more than two decades.
'Your country has seen a transformation in how its people work and in what they rightly expect for themselves, for their families and for their society.
'The enormous challenge of how to deal with this, falls to you and your colleagues. Yet what China does economically, but also politically, is seen by and relevant to not merely your own citizens, it is seen by and relevant to billions more across the globe.
'The world will be watching and waiting expectantly on the outcome as the emerging superpower takes its new place in the world.' |