Conducting diplomacy is like conducting any kind of relationship. You have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, so with our closest allies we also have challenges and we have to go on the offence, and in some cases we have to play defence.
That is much more the case with China than it used to be. As everyone knows, there has been a divergence in how China has developed vis-à-vis how many commentators thought it would develop as it adopted many market-based policies. In the recent decade, as I tried to say, it has been increasingly divergent from the path that many of us hoped it would be on. So yes, we do have to play offence when our....The framework that we tend to use is the one that Ambassador May already outlined, and the EU uses it and the Americans use it to a certain extent.
Think in terms of three Cs. We compete where we can. Think of that in terms of the G7 trying to compete with China on an infrastructure offering for the developing world. We challenge where we need to. Think of that as human rights and the other areas where we have fundamental disagreements with China. And we co-operate where we can; that's across the range of bilateral, multilateral, and geopolitical issues.