Posted on 11/20/2024 2:49:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has heaped praise on Keir Starmer’s economic policy, as the UK prime minister used their first meeting to raise concerns about sanctions on MPs and the treatment of the pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai.
During their conversation at the G20 summit in Rio, the first meeting between the UK and China’s leaders in six years, Starmer said he would be keen to host a full bilateral meeting with Xi and the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, in Beijing or London as soon as possible, aimed at turning the page on frosty UK-China relations.
In a marked change of tone from previous years, Xi said Starmer was “fixing the foundations” of the UK economy, echoing the prime minister’s own slogan. He said the pair would “break new ground” in the relationship.
But the prime minister also raised human rights concerns with the Chinese president about sanctions on British Conservative MPs and the deterioration of Lai, a British citizen and Hong Kong democracy activist.
Starmer promised a “strong UK-China relationship” and said the pair had agreed there should be no more “surprises” between the two countries. Chinese officials bundled British journalists out of the meeting when Starmer raised the plight of Lai, who is being held in Hong Kong.
“The world has entered a new period marked by turbulence and transformation,” Xi said in the meeting. “The new UK government is working to fix the foundations of the economy and rebuild Britain and has set the vision of Britain reconnected.
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From one commie to another.
Starmer promised a “strong UK-China relationship”
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How can that possibly help the UK?
Starker is grasping at straws.
Starmer is in the process of turning the UK into a China-style police state. So why not get chummy?
he admires the chinese totalitarian model
So easily compromised...just throw a little money or Fang fang at them.
First, on Prince Andrew and his Chinese spy problem...
Prince Andrew’s Chinese ‘spy’ blunder is no surprise
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The really interesting bit from the above...
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Never heard of it? Neither had I. But guess what it gets up to...
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Okaaaaay....
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