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Mr Foreign Minister, it is a great pleasure for me
to welcome you and your wife and the other members of
your party to London on this occasion. It is not our
first meeting, as I had the pleasure of a first
encounter with you in New York at the beginning of June. But this is the first time you have come to this country
and only the second time that the Foreign Minister of
the People's Republic of China has come here.
therefore an occasion of great significance to us.
It is
The impact of China's culture and civilisation on
Europe has been immense. Equally, European culture,
and particularly the scientific achievements and practical
technology which sprang from our philosophical view of the
world have made a great and growing impact on China.
Thus Britain and China can look back over a long and
fruitful history of contact over the centuries. But in
doing so we have to accept that time, patience and
flexibility have been needed to give the relationship
a form and substance which reflects the realities of the
modern world. For us, a most significant development
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was in January 1950 when the British Labour Government of the day was first amongst the Western conntries to
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