Cameron's trip to China Business

British Prime Minister David • Cameron (David Cameron) visit to the occasion, bring the whole coalition government and a large delegation of British business and hope to do business with China. And when he finally left the realized export agreement with China reached a high level is a slow and difficult process - even if the wording of human rights issues in his gentle, to avoid slip of the tongue.

Reached during the visit of transactions worth billions of pounds to Cameron cheering, but the total value of export agreement signed less than 10 billion pounds, including a Chinese from the Rolls-Royce (Rolls-Royce) to purchase 16 750 million pounds worth of aircraft engines agreements, totaling not more than 9 billion pounds (1.4 billion).

British officials said other major transactions expected - such as British Petroleum (BP) and the Chinese state-owned energy group CNOOC (Cnooc) protocol, and the British drinks group Diageo (Diageo) agreement with China - unable to do so to achieve is because the Chinese government is not ready to sign the bill, although UK companies have been impatient.

British officials said they hope that these transactions are still timely progress. According to a British official said Cameron's strategy is in this line of business at the same time, in a "delicate, measured" approach, a topic of concern mentioned in some of the UK, in particular human rights issues. Cameron meticulously implemented during the visit of this strategy. It is reported that some human rights abuse cases - such as the Chinese government imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu - is made dinner on Tuesday, but the British Government will not formally conducted such a study.

A speech at Peking University, Cameron told the British multi-party democracy, freedom of expression and independence of the judiciary to bring their own difficulties, but said the annoyance of political freedom, and ultimately more conducive to "the British Government to make informed decision-making, and to develop a healthy confidence of their people to sell the policy. "

These words do not offend the Chinese government, because the CPC has explored these issues internally, but Cameron was using his own experience as an example.

Cameron repeatedly stressed that he came to Beijing not to "reprimand" or "threat" of China, although he said in his speech, the British human rights "expressed deep concern."

Admonishment China is not on the agenda. Cameron said the global trade imbalances and exchange rate risk of war - the war to some extent the exchange rate is a result of currency manipulation. Most economists believe the yuan exchange rate has been kept artificially low, to enhance its export competitiveness.

Cameron did not adhere to the Group of Seven (G7) principle, urged China to step up efforts to make the RMB exchange rate reflect market pressures. Instead, he prepared to accept this fact: that Beijing is discussing "the ultimate introduction of the RMB exchange rate more market flexibility."

"It can not happen overnight, but it must be done," he said.

When Cameron's special plane departed Beijing and Seoul to attend G20 summit, British officials wanted to know whether all his diplomacy worked.

They do not think in any case, the results of Cameron's visit with French President Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Sarkozy) and Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday signed the 20 billion U.S. dollars of trade agreements comparable.

The most important outcome of this line of Rolls-Royce agreement as a "Scotch whiskey" (Scotch) the name of the legal protection of the Agreement, and to allow Britain to export to China of a breeding agreement.