The head of the British military has visited the first Beijing in 10 years

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The head of the British army only visited Beijing for the first time during a visit by the Chinese government.

Joint Sign of the Central Military Commission of China General Staff General Staff General Liu Zhenli, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, President of the British Defenders in Beijing, according to a statement issued by the Chinese Defense Ministry.

“The parties communicated in connection with Chinese-UK relations and military-military relations, international and regional situations and common concerns and the strengthening of exchange and cooperation between two servicemen,” the Chinese said.

The British Defense Ministry (MOD) did not announce any of the visit and refused to comment other than confirming this happened on Thursday.

The British military visited China in China, in 2015, General Sir Nicholas Houghton, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Anglo-Chinese relations visited the “golden period”.

Although bilateral relations were later iced for the management of the conservative leadership, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, was engaged in Beijing for winning in July last year.

UK Chancellor Rachel Reveves and Foreign Minister David Lammy, visited China in recent months, then starmer is expected to visit this year.

However, some mod figures, the US-China trade war has been strengthened and the UK President Donald Trump is asked to negotiate the reduction of 10 percent of US President Donald Trump.

UK officials said the visit was planned for months and in any way with the United States.

Matthew Savill, Defense and Safety Thinking Tank at the Institute of Military Sciences Royal United Services, such a long plan of such a visit, and the long-term driver, the UK government will create a dilemma, he said.

“They will make a difficult decision: ‘We cancel or not?’ As can be seen, they do not work well on this good communication front, “he said.

This was not only the Chinese Defense Ministry announcing a high-level visit to the Chinese officials, as a “discount” option to continue his visit to the visit and not to do so at the end of the British.

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Twelve other nations, including the Norwegian, Canada and Spain, in addition to the multinational placement of small-LEDs, which emphasized the MOD’s “strength of the UK management to protect stability in the Indo-Pacific.

Mod, in addition to joining an exercise of 19-nationalities near Australia, said he would train the aircraft carrier with the Japanese military.

However, the British government did not confirm the freedom of navigation in the freedom of navigation coaching of the carrier’s holiday team in the South China Sea.

The SOURCE, Radakina’s visit to Beijing, at least partially compiled to the LED carrier strike group “to make sure that there are no misunderstandings.”

UK officials said that England’s interest in Britain to deal with solid military-military communication. They added that the government has held strong conversations to avoid the importance of peace and stability in the Indian-Pacific, as well as using military pressure to achieve political goals.