Thank you.
First of all, I didn't say “friends”. What I said was, the engagement with China is something we will continue to do unless we sever all ties with them. As I indicated, we had a 17% growth in our bilateral trade with them last year. It's now at $100 billion. We are engaging with China, so the question is this: Do we want to be in the driver's seat, or do we want to be driven by that relationship?
I'm saying to you that we have opportunities to continue engagement—and dialogue is important. People forget you're in the coldest of the cold wars. Thirty per cent of western Europe's energy needs were met by the U.S.S.R. When they were building the wall around Berlin, we were still talking to the U.S.S.R. The fact that people want to completely cut off these countries, I think is naive.
We need to be able to sit down and have conversations where it's appropriate to do so, in our own national interests. Climate change is a good one, health and life sciences. Look at the work we did on COVID-19 around the world. There are things we can work on together where we mutually agree on the outcome, and I think that's what I was talking about.