Wang Wen
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to China this week brought the next round of pragmatic cooperation between the more than 50 leading British companies accompanying him and China. More than that, it also signified the end of Western attempts to decouple from China. January 2026 is thus destined to be written into history books as a turning point in global geopolitics.
This is the first visit to China by a British prime minister in eight years. Two weeks ago, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also visited China – the first such trip in nine years. In 2018, Canada, at the behest of the United States, detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the airport, plunging Sino-Canadian relations into a deep freeze. A few months later, then-British Prime Minister Theresa May ended her term, and Sino-British relations ended their “golden age” and plunged into an “ice age.”
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