BEIJING: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, hoping to restore long fraught relations. It is the first visit to China by a UK prime minister since 2018 and follows a string of Western leaders courting Beijing in recent weeks, pivoting from a mercurial United States. Starmer, who is also expected to visit Shanghai on Friday, will later make a brief stop in Japan to meet with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Keir Starmer parte martedì 27 gennaio per una visita in Cina destinata a cercare di rilanciare, sullo sfondo delle tensioni geopolitiche attuali con il grande alleato americano,…

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