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Anglo-Sino relations: President Jinping meets Queen Elizabeth II in first state visit in a decade

• Chinese President Xi Jinping begins four-day UK visit
• The Queen says President's visit is a "defining moment"
• The Labour Leader wore white tie when he atttended the Queen's Banquet
• Jeremy Corbyn's meeting with Chinese President Xi was "cordial and constructive"
• Chinese President and Duke of Cambridge discuss illegal wildlife trade




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The Queen described President Xi Jinping’s State visit to Britain as a “defining moment” in the future of Anglo-Sino relations last night as the Chinese leader spoke of the “everlasting friendship” between the two countries.
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Barely two years after full diplomatic relations were restored, Mr Xi insisted his four-day visit would lift the bilateral relationship to “a new height”. The first day of his high-profile stay in the UK, during which £30 billion of trade deals are expected to be agreed, ended with a State banquet that reflected both the pomp and the pressure of a day in which tension was never far from the surface. The dinner table at Buckingham Palace glistened with gold but the deliberate absence of the Prince of Wales from the set-piece event was a constant reminder that China’s record on human rights remains a barrier in its relations with the West.

HM The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh pose for an official photograph with the President of The Peopl's Republic of China, Mr Xi Jinping, accompanied by Madame Peng Liyuan

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The Queen described the first State visit by a Chinese premier for 10 years as “a milestone in the unprecedented year of co-operation and friendship between the United Kingdom and China” as David Cameron and George Osborne pursue a policy of making Britain China’s most important European trading partner. Among the guests were Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney.


Chinese President Xi Jinping with the Duchess of Cambridge at the state banquet tonight

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Members of the royal family who attended included the Duke of York, the Princess Royal and the Earl and Countess of Wessex.
There's some good pictures there.

It'd be nice for Britain to be outside the EU and be able to sign a load of trade deals with the Chinese President but hey ho.

Thoughts?