James Cleverly will hold talks with senior members of government when he arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, despite calls from Tory backbenchers to take a tougher stance on the country.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will visit China this week to hold"high level" talks with government officials amid an ongoing debate within his party over how to approach the country.
Mr Cleverly is due to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday in what will be the first visit of a UK foreign secretary in five years, meeting China's minister of foreign affairs Wang Yi and vice president Han Zheng The Foreign Office said he would use the trip to"strengthen channels of communication to further and protect British interests".
A number of issues will be up for discussion, including"helping to end Putin's invasion of Ukraine, diffusing tensions in the South China Sea and ceasing malign activity in cyberspace", a statement said.Mr Cleverly will also raise the country's human rights"obligations" in the Xinjiang province and Tibet, as well challenging ministers over Hong Kong, and the sanctions Beijing has placed on a number of UK politicians.
Speaking ahead of the visit, the foreign secretary said:"No significant global problem - from climate change to pandemic prevention, from economic instability to nuclear proliferation - can be solved without China.
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