Britain, France and Germany are the earliest ancestors of the developed countries and the three most powerful economies in Europe. However, at the moment of the global economic downturn, the common pursuit of these three countries is not to hug the American thighs but to find China !
Not long ago, French President Macron put the first diplomatic visit to China in the New Year and took away 10 billion yuan of economic and trade orders signed with China. Needless to say, Germany has smashed hundreds of billions of dollars in large purchases in the past two years German enterprises, the Chinese capital has been to promote Germany's industrial development a tonic. As the United States most intimate ally, Britain, Prime Minister Teresa May suddenly announced his visit to China on January 31, saying that the outcome of the 2017 visit to China will be postponed until now. Does this veteran empire really want to move closer to China? Is it just profit-driven?
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The visit to China by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, is in fact a sublimation recently demonstrated by Britain in frequent frequent reports to China. We must know that in December last year China-UK economic and financial dialogue has reached a full 72 results! Britain is not only the first country in Western countries to declare its support for RMB as a settlement currency, but also the first country to join the AIIB. At the same time, Britain strongly advocates speeding up the preparation of Shanghai-London Stock Exchange and studying the interconnection of the two bond markets. To provide 25 billion pounds of support to China's infrastructure projects, even last year's 36.7 billion U.S. dollars trade deficit with China .. At the moment, the first Western empire that used to knock on China through opium is now so close Really a bit incredible! Even the U.S. Trump directly rejected the visit of Theresa Mayer to the United States.
It is not difficult to find out the reason behind this. At the time of such a redistribution of the world pattern, Britain had to choose his teammates again according to the situation. First of all, the Brexit deal has not yet come to an end. The United Kingdom reached an agreement with the European Union on the first wave of the "Brexit Breakup Fee." The estimated amount to be paid by the British media is over 50 billion euros (about 390 billion yuan) This is a tremendous burden on British debt of 1.9 trillion pounds. Second, the relations between the United Kingdom and the United States and the EU become more and more strained. The United States intended not to want the United Kingdom to leave the EU. As a result, Britain had to seek to establish more relations with other countries in the world Extensive partnership, especially with China.
Will China know how to be grateful if China spends money to help Britain weather the storm?
Britain selected China, in fact, nothing else, is to trade. In 2016, bilateral trade volume reached 74.4 billion U.S. dollars. From January to August 2017, exports from Britain to China increased by 13.2%. China is still the fastest-growing export market in the United Kingdom. In particular, China's foreign direct investment in Britain hit a record high of 20.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, far exceeding In 2016, the 9.2 billion U.S. dollars, with Li Ka-shing and other Chinese companies making massive inroads into the UK energy industry, the British government is very happy to see such a picture. It can solve the hydropower problem without spending money. Not?
During this visit to China, Theresa May will lead a huge delegation when he visits China. The leaders of major industrial, scientific, technological and financial enterprises in Britain are in exactly the same line as French President Macron's visit to China. China is also very welcome Britain to promote the deepening of relations between the two countries, after all, with the EU and the United States, "anti-dumping" against China, the United Kingdom will not toughly review foreign investment, and Chinese investors are very friendly.
In addition, China still needs to worry that although the recent tension between the United States and Britain has not been exceptionally good at the recent Davos summit, Trump unluckily demonstrated with Theresa May and confirmed that the two countries Between the 'special relationship' is more solid than ever before ', it seems that Britain did not completely give up the eldest brother ah.