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, the business and trade secretary, was doing a morning interview round and she suggested that toughening the rhetoric used to describe China would be counterproductive. Asked on Sky News whether China was friend or foe, she replied:
China is a country that we do a lot of business with. China is a country that is significant in terms of world economics. It sits on the UN security council. We certainly should not be describing China as a foe but we can describe it as a challenge … I don’t think we should be careless in terms of how we speak about other countries when these sorts of things happen.And asked on the Today programme if China should be designated a threat, she suggested that might “escalate” the problem.
Whether or not you use words like threat I think is a reflection of how far you want to escalate things. China is the second largest economy in the world, it’s heavily integrated in our economy as it is with many of our allies … We’re taking the same approach that those countries are taking.Kemi Badenoch, the business and trade secretary, visits Oxford as part of BMW’s announcement about its plan to produce the electric Mini in the city.
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