On November 16, Chinese Ambassador to Britain, Fu Ying,delivered a speech at the Royal Society, entitled "China andBritain in a Changing World." In the speech, Fu devoted a largespace to China"s status quo in terms of both economic andsocial fields, as well as the country"s new developmentguidelines established at the recent national congress of theCommunist Party of China. Excerpts follow:
As Deng Xiaoping remarked, China isboth big and small, strong and weak.