Choice between Harris and Trump was ‘two bowls of poison for Beijing’, a Chinese academic said
When Sir Keir Starmer lands in Brazil for the G20 summit next week, he will face the usual critics in his party. Why is the Prime Minister onThat complaint – uttered more regularly these days by backbenchers – has caused enough alarm in No 10 that one of the new look political team’s first acts was to axe a trip to Australia so Starmer could get back to the UK for meetings ahead of the budget.
If so, he would become the first prime minister since Theresa May in 2018 to do so. It would also be significant in unlocking benefits with China. As one well plugged in figure puts it: “For progress, there has to be a head-to-head meeting.” Meanwhile, various bold positions on Chinese engagement have been pushed to review or put on pause for now. A visit from a Taiwan ex-president was asked to be deferred until afterYet with the return of Donald Trump to the White House in the new year, this realignment of the Sino-anglo relationship is becoming much harder to do.
It’s not just the president-elect’s threat of tariffs – which would be higher for China compared with other countries. The new approach is likely to be much more wide-ranging.His one time nemesis is a well-established China hawk. Allies of Rubio say that he viewed the Biden administration approach to China as too conciliatory and takes the view that Beijing is effectively an enemy of the United States.
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