Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-29-Speech-4-155"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Prospects for EU-China trade relations (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050929.21.4-155"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-29-Speech-4-1562
lpv:speaker	lp:Nirj Deva2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to thank my friend Robert for a very Sturdy speech! I can only support this report very reluctantly because the tone of it is not quite right. We have to understand that China is a great country with a population three times the size of the European Union. It became a nation state 2000 years ago and has remained one until today. China has a civilisation that is much older than most of ours and our relationship with China is a relationship of equals in which neither side really has the right to lecture the other. China has its own way of doing things. We must continue to find ways of cooperating with China and if each side of the relationship tries hard enough to understand and accommodate the basic concerns of the other, by looking ahead in a proactive way, the future is bright. But if we fail, we will be plunged into damaging and acrimonious competition. The recent crisis over textile imports should be a lesson to us all. Today the EU-China relationship is in a very active and productive phase and bilateral relationships are in a more mature, healthy and stable condition than ever. We have to develop this with diligence and sensitivity, striving always to find common ground and to minimise our inevitable differences. We need to maximise our trading synergies and work together on the big international problems of our age, including terrorism, nuclear proliferation and the fight against hunger and disease. None of this will be easy but there is a very relevant proverb in China: . I will try to translate: in effect it says that there is nothing so difficult in this world that it cannot be resolved by people with high aspirations. I have no doubt that there are such people on both sides of our relationship and I look forward to a bright and mutually rewarding future in cooperation with China."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-16--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "Nirj Deva (PPE-DE ). –"1 "Shi Shang Wu Nan Shi, Zhi Pa You Xin Ren"1

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