Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports that the President Alberto Fernandez of Argentina congratulated President Xi Jinping of China Xi Jinping on securing a third term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party describing him as an example for countries around the world.

The UK Government wants a broad, constructive relationship with Argentina, and we hugely value recent cooperation across areas such as health, climate and human rights. China's increasing international assertiveness and the growing importance of the Indo-Pacific will be among the most significant geopolitical and geo-economic shifts in the 2020s. We will require a robust diplomatic framework for this relationship that allows us to manage disagreements, defend our values and preserve space for cooperation where our interests align.