
Xing Houyuan, a director of the state-backed Chinese Academy of
International Trade and Economic Cooperation, has said that China is open to
launching trade negotiations with the UK and that it was being frustrated by the
EU in its current trade negotiations. According to a report in theChina Daily, “the situation in Western Europe will push China
and the UK to make a trade treaty”. With the EU-US trade deal stalled and moves in
the US to put the UK at the front of the queue, the post-Brexit situation is
looking very different to how the experts
predicted…
Britain’s embassies overseas now have some work to
do.Getting trade deals done over the next
two years… Guido
Faulkes.