British Prime Minister Keir Starmer astatine Downing Street connected January 27, 2026 successful London, England.
Jack Taylor | Getty Images News | Getty Images
BEIJING — Nearly 60 British businesses and taste organizations volition articulation U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer connected his travel to China this week, the first specified authorities sojourn successful 8 years.
Starmer is owed to conscionable with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang connected Thursday to sermon trade, concern and nationalist security, according to an official U.K. readout that listed the concern representatives accompanying the British leader.
The radical includes fiscal manufacture leaders specified arsenic HSBC Group Chairman Brendan Nelson and Aberdeen Group CEO Jason Windsor.
Aircraft elephantine Airbus's wide counsel John Harrison volition besides join, on with British Airways Chief Commercial Officer Colm Lacy.
Pharmaceutical executives accompanying Starmer see AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot and GSK Chair Sir Jonathan Symonds.
The sojourn comes arsenic Beijing hosts a bid of overseas leaders this period amid escalating U.S. tensions with its trading partners and disputes involving Greenland.
Earlier this month, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Beijing. On the archetypal Monday of 2026, Xi met Ireland's Prime Minister Michael Martin — the first sojourn by an Irish person successful 14 years — and hosted South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung aboriginal successful the day. Xi besides met Tuesday with Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.
English (US) ·