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Keir Starmer tells Xi Jinping he wants closer UK-China relations
Financial Times ^ | August 23 2024 | Joe Leahy and Jim Pickard

Posted on 08/25/2024 9:40:23 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Sir Keir Starmer has told President Xi Jinping in the first-ever conversation between the leaders that he wants the UK and China to pursue closer economic ties while being free to talk frankly about their disagreements. 

Xi, the Chinese leader, told Britain’s new prime minister during a 45-minute phone call that he hoped the UK would “look at China objectively and rationally”, the Chinese official news agency Xinhua said.

Sir Keir Starmer has told President Xi Jinping in the first-ever conversation between the leaders that he wants the UK and China to pursue closer economic ties while being free to talk frankly about their disagreements. 

Xi, the Chinese leader, told Britain’s new prime minister during a 45-minute phone call that he hoped the UK would “look at China objectively and rationally”, the Chinese official news agency Xinhua said.

The conversation was initiated by Starmer, whose aides said he wanted to forge a long-term, “grown-up” relationship between the countries despite various existing challenges.

Downing Street said the two leaders had discussed areas of collaboration including trade, the economy and education, and agreed that as permanent members of the UN Security Council they should work closely on global security and climate change.

Number 10 said it did not gloss over the areas where there had been growing tensions between Beijing and London in recent years. “The prime minister added that he hoped the leaders would be able to have open, frank and honest discussions to address and understand areas of disagreement where necessary, such as Hong Kong, Russia’s war in Ukraine and human rights.”

Britain has been alarmed by China’s curbing of civil freedoms in Hong Kong, which was under UK control until 1997, as well as its treatment of the Uyghur people and other Muslims in its western Xinjiang region.

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TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom; War
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; defundnato; keirstalin; onthetake; redchina; rop; starmer; twotierkeir; unitedkingdom
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To: MinorityRepublican

He doesn’t have to trust Starmer. He is a weakc-nt who could be destroyed by the chinese in mere minutes with a nuclear assault or a bioweapon and offers zero threat to Xi in return.


21 posted on 08/25/2024 11:21:14 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Captainpaintball

Nah. Xi can just refuse to trade with the UK. The UK is no longer part of the EU. Their economy will collapse immediately.


22 posted on 08/25/2024 11:23:26 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Commie to Commie— it’s the Labour Party way. Remember Red Ken. the prelude to the Imam of London fronted by chi-com manipulation of IslamoFascism. Leftist Fascism transforms to world Communism quite easily when you have dork totalitarians like Starmer.


23 posted on 08/25/2024 11:40:03 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well, yes, of course he could just stop trading with them. But I don’t count ethnogenocide out with the Chinese. What do they care about the brits and their afro-indio replacements? All I think they would want are the buildings and the art and they can turn the whole island into a kind of vacation destination. The survivors and all future offspring would begrudgingly be slaves and run “ye Olde British Pub #456” or “the Jolly Good Fish And Chips Cafe” and “Curry in a Hurry” for the vacationing chinese to enjoy as a quaint diversion of inferior human civilization.


24 posted on 08/25/2024 11:40:45 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Billthedrill

Alarmed all the way back when idiot Charles GAVE UP Hong Kong to the Chi-Coms.... alarmed and have DONE nothing leaving it up to the mop-up WWII Crew— the USA to handle all the dirty crap they left in the toilet, and elsewhere in the poorly run Empire. Can one say Afghanistan (Khyber Pass, and Kipling all the way back to then?) or India and the Raj and the Civil War from muzzies and hindus— a country they built and then f’d up and left out of stupid actions of military expansions and.... loss. The British Civil Servant worldwide led to this shite.


25 posted on 08/25/2024 11:43:24 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: jerod

If he makes it that far. A vote of no confidence and forming a new govt. would come along very shortly as this crap continues— their pocketbooks are being torn to shreds. A little thing called the City of London would step in, and herr Starmer is DONE. Kaput!


26 posted on 08/25/2024 11:45:20 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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