{"id":81938,"date":"2019-02-26T14:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/26\/gunboat-diplomacy-can-only-harm-britains-relationship-with-china-liu-xiaoming\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T14:40:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:40:28","slug":"gunboat-diplomacy-can-only-harm-britains-relationship-with-china-liu-xiaoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=81938","title":{"rendered":"Gunboat diplomacy can only harm Britain\u2019s relationship with China | Liu Xiaoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our cooperation is like a symphony: it relies on mutual respect and trust to keep out the noises of enmity \u2022 Liu Xiaoming is China\u2019s ambassador to the UKA certain British politician\u2019s hyping up of the \u201cChina threat\u201d in a recent speech struck a discordant note with the mainstream view in the UK that the country has a strong and constructive relationship with China. It has led me to think about how much could be learned from the world-class concerts by London\u2019s leading symphony orchestra that I have attended, the beauty of which comes from the harmony of various sounds and the coordination between the players. If the China-UK relationship were compared to a symphony, its success would depend on close coordination between the two countries and a firm resistance to interruptions and noises.In this symphony, China and the UK rely on mutual respect and trust to keep us in tune, and keep out the noise of enmity and confrontation. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/feb\/26\/gunboat-diplomacy-britain-china\" target=\"_blank\">Gunboat diplomacy can only harm Britain\u2019s relationship with China | Liu Xiaoming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our cooperation is like a symphony: it relies on mutual respect and trust to keep out the noises of enmity \u2022 Liu Xiaoming is China\u2019s ambassador to the UKA certain British politician\u2019s hyping up of the \u201cChina threat\u201d in a recent speech struck a discordant note with the mainstream view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}