{"id":76148,"date":"2026-01-30T02:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/29\/chinese-state-media-starmer-visit-act-economic-pragmatism"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:31:38","slug":"chinese-state-media-views-starmers-visit-as-act-of-economic-pragmatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76148","title":{"rendered":"Chinese state media views Starmer\u2019s visit as act of economic pragmatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM praised for not pressuring Xi over his ties with Putin on a trip seen as business \u2018taking precedence over politics\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/jan\/29\/starmer-xi-jinping-meeting-uk-china-relationship-live\"><strong>UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keir Starmer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jan\/29\/xi-starmer-china-uk-meeting-chinese-leader-rise-above-differences-sophisticated\">visit to Beijing<\/a> has been cautiously welcomed by Chinese state media as an act of economic pragmatism by a beleaguered British prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of 50 business and cultural leaders with Starmer, who is the first British prime minister to visit China in eight years, was taken as a sign that the UK was prioritising its ailing economy over political considerations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/29\/chinese-state-media-starmer-visit-act-economic-pragmatism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM praised for not pressuring Xi over his ties with Putin on a trip seen as business \u2018taking precedence over politics\u2019UK politics live \u2013 latest updatesKeir Starmer\u2019s visit to Beijing has been cautiously welcomed by Chinese state media as an act of econ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,437,319,558,1622,4,1536,52,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-economics","category-foreign-policy","category-global-economy","category-keir-starmer","category-politics","category-trade-policy","category-uk-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76158,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76148\/revisions\/76158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}