Xi Jinping praises Labour’s economic policy as Keir Starmer discusses human rights concerns

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 22:57:31 | Updated at 2024-11-21 11:29:52 12 hours ago

Xi Jinping praises Labour’s economic policy as Keir Starmer discusses human rights concerns
The Guardian ^ | Mon 18 Nov 2024 | Jessica Elgot and Patrick Wintour

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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Thank you very much and God bless you.

To: MinorityRepublican

From one commie to another.

2 posted on 11/20/2024 2:50:40 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)

To: MinorityRepublican

Starmer promised a “strong UK-China relationship”

How can that possibly help the UK?

3 posted on 11/20/2024 2:50:46 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)

To: ifinnegan

To: MinorityRepublican

Starker is grasping at straws.

5 posted on 11/20/2024 2:54:12 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)

To: MinorityRepublican

Starmer is in the process of turning the UK into a China-style police state. So why not get chummy?

6 posted on 11/20/2024 2:56:07 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)

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