It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.
Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.
What frustrates U.S. officials is that China sometimes seems more comfortable accommodating a strong United States, as it did in past decades, than partnering with an America that's less dominant.
I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
We should forcefully call out China whenever it violates international standards.
We are very supportive of the economic reforms that the Chinese government have talked about.
Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.
I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
Our message to China is very clear: we want the U.K. to be China's best partner in the West.
Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.