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Let me say to Mr Mitchell that, first of all, I do not feel qualified to make moral judgments here as to whether we are selfish or not, but, yes, it is very much in our interest to help those countries. It is not only a matter of trade, it is also a matter of global security and it is a matter of migration, which we have talked about today and during the last month and will talk about again in the future.
There are many ways in which it is in our interests for those countries to develop. There is absolutely no doubt about that and we should not do it just because we are so generous, although we must be generous and I think that we are.
As far as China is concerned, that is a very interesting point. Just a week ago, I led a Troika mission to China and we had a very interesting political dialogue with the Chinese. One of the issues we talked about was exactly that: China’s activities, in Africa in particular but also in other developing countries, especially in the fields of energy and trade. We said we are concerned that the values we share – and that we hope China also shares – as regards good governance and human rights are not respected. So this is an issue that we are very much aware of. We raise it in relation to our partners and we have raised it, and will raise it again, in relation to China."@en1
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