Britain is seeking a free trade agreement with China Authentic Roberto Luongo Jersey , Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday as she flew to the country for talks with Chinese leaders, adding that more should be done immediately to open up market access for British firms.
The ambitious long-term goal of securing a free trade deal with the world's second-largest economy comes as May begins a three-day visit to China accompanied by businesses from sectors where Britain feels it can capitalise on China's growing middle class consumers and rapidly expanding services sector.
""China is a country that we want to do a trade deal with,"" May told reporters aboard her Royal Air Force jet on the way to Wuhan - a university city where she will announce half a billion pounds worth of education deals.
""But, I think that there is more we can be doing in the interim...in terms of looking at potential barriers to trade and the opening up of markets to ensure...British businesses able to do good trade into China.""
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MOSCOW, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Russia is still ready to mend tieswith the United States despite the prospect of new sanctionsbrought by Washington's newly released ""Kremlin list,"" RussianPresident Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
The U.S. Treasury Department late Monday published a list of 114Russian political figures and 96 business leaders widely seen aspotential targets for new sanctions, although the documentspecifies that it should not be interpreted as a sanctionslist.
""It is definitely an unfriendly act. It complicates Russia-U.S.relations Jared McCann Jersey , which are in a difficult situation even without this,and it also causes damage to the international relations ingeneral,"" Putin said at a meeting with the trustees of hispresidential campaign.
While underscoring that Russia cannot ""surrender positionsendlessly,"" the president said that Moscow is not interested insevering ties with Washington.
Instead, it wanted to develop stable relations with Washingtonbased on international law and the two major nuclear powers areexpected by their peoples to ""build up their ties in a modern waywith respect to each other Jamie McGinn Jersey ,"" he said.
""We are not going to pick a fight and to aggravate thesituation. We want and will be building relations patiently, as faras the other side is ready, the American side in this case,"" Putinsaid.
He said Moscow had expected the publication of the list and wasready to take steps in response, which ""could drive our relationstowards an absolute zero.""
However Radim Vrbata Jersey , Russia would refrain from such steps for the time beingand would attentively monitor the development of the situation,Putin said.