Liu Xiaoming

Liu Xiaoming
刘晓明
People's Republic of China Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Assumed office
March 2010
Preceded by Fu Ying
Personal details
Born January 1956 (age 62)
Jieyang, Guangdong, China
Residence London, United Kingdom
Liu Xiaoming
Simplified Chinese 刘晓明
Traditional Chinese 劉曉明

Liu Xiaoming (simplified Chinese: 刘晓明; traditional Chinese: 劉曉明; born January 1956) is a Chinese diplomat serving as ambassador to the United Kingdom since 2009. He graduated from Dalian University of Foreign Languages with a major in English and undertook further studies in the United States, obtaining a master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1983.[1]

Between 2001 and 2003, Liu acted as China's ambassador in Egypt, and from 2006 to 2010 as Chinese ambassador in North Korea. In 2010 he replaced Fu Ying as Chinese ambassador in the UK.[2]

He is famous for likening Japan to Harry Potter's character Voldemort, meanwhile Japan returning the accusation.

In 2017, in an interview marking 20 years to the Hong Kong Handover he expressed his support of the "one country two systems" mechanism. He emphasized that Hong Kong is an active democracy and an integral part of China, and that internal affairs were “not for foreign governments to get involved in".[3]

In 2018, Liu Xiaoming published a signed article in The Guardian on the subject of the US-China trade war, noting that while China was still open to negotiation, the US is maintaining a position of unilateralism.[4] In early May 2018, Xiaoming noted that the North Korean government was closely watching the details surrounding the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Liu Xiaoming". Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Chinese President Hu Jintao Appoints New Ambassadors". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. March 9, 2010. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Chinese Ambassador defends democracy in Hong Kong". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
  4. ↑ Xiaoming, Liu (2018-04-10). "China does not want a trade war with the US, but it must defend itself | Liu Xiaoming". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
  5. ↑ "Kim Jong Un Is Watching Trump's Iran Decision, Chinese Envoy Says". Bloomberg.com. 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2018-05-13.


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