From Global News.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Friday it would be foolish for Britain not to engage with China, rejecting an assertion from U.S. President Donald Trump that it was dangerous to do business with Beijing.

Starmer is the latest Western leader to visit China, seeking an economic and geopolitical hedge against Trump’s unpredictability. Starmer’s three hours of talks with President Xi Jinping on Thursday resulted in China agreeing to cut tariffs on U.K. whisky and to relax visa rules, while Britain said progress had been made on market access for its professional services sector.

"It would be foolhardy to simply say we will ignore (China)," Starmer told the BBC in an interview in Shanghai, highlighting French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit and a planned trip by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

In Washington, replying to questions about closer UK-China ties, Trump said it was "very dangerous for them to do that." He did not elaborate.
Starmer said the UK-U.S. relationship was very close and that Washington had been made aware of his visit and Trump himself plans to travel to China in April.

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