{"id":76152,"date":"2026-01-30T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/30\/trump-dangerous-uk-china-starmer-xi-jinping-beijing"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:39:17","slug":"trump-says-very-dangerous-for-uk-to-do-business-with-china-after-starmer-hails-progress-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76152","title":{"rendered":"Trump says \u2018very dangerous\u2019 for UK to do business with China, after Starmer hails progress in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president warns against closer ties with China during British PM\u2019s trip to secure lower tariffs and better market access<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has warned the UK against doing business with China, just hours after Keir Starmer lauded the economic relationship during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jan\/29\/keir-starmer-opens-door-to-uk-visit-by-xi-jinping-after-bilateral-talks\">landmark visit to Beijing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The US president said it was \u201cvery dangerous\u201d for the UK to pursue closer ties with the rival superpower as the prime minister\u2019s three-hour talks with Xi Jinping underlined a thaw in previously strained relations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/30\/trump-dangerous-uk-china-starmer-xi-jinping-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president warns against closer ties with China during British PM\u2019s trip to secure lower tariffs and better market accessDonald Trump has warned the UK against doing business with China, just hours after Keir Starmer lauded the economic relationship &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4536,"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":[41,6,50,415,437,558,1622,4,3280,1536,52,47,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-keir-starmer","category-politics","category-tariffs","category-trade-policy","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76152","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\/4536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76169,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76152\/revisions\/76169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}