Article R3BZ Corbyn has 'cordial' exchange with Xi over China's rights record

Corbyn has 'cordial' exchange with Xi over China's rights record

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Rowena Mason Political correspondent
from Economics | The Guardian on (#R3BZ)

Labour party leader raises issue of steel imports as well as human rights record in meeting with Chinese president

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has raised China's human rights record and the impact of its imports on the UK steel industry at a meeting at Buckingham Palace with President Xi Jinping, which the party described as "cordial and constructive".

A statement from Labour following Corbyn's meeting stressed the good nature of the exchange, and praised "the remarkable Chinese achievements in poverty-reduction, lifting over 600 million people out of poverty".

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