Rishi Sunak to meet China’s Xi Jinping in first such talks in five years

PM expected to raise energy, climate and Ukraine – despite some UK ministers being under Chinese sanctions for raising Uyghur abuses

Rishi Sunak will extend Britain’s hand to China for the first time in almost five years, asking for closer relations on energy and the economy, in a move that risks a backlash from Conservative MPs who have had sanctions imposed upon them by Beijing.

Sunak will meet the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, at the G20 summit in Bali on Wednesday in last-minute bilateral talks announced late on Tuesday, a day after the prime minister suggested he would row back from categorising China as a “threat”, something his predecessor, Liz Truss, had vowed to do.

Continue reading…

​PM expected to raise energy, climate and Ukraine – despite some UK ministers being under Chinese sanctions for raising Uyghur abusesRishi Sunak will extend Britain’s hand to China for the first time in almost five years, asking for closer relations on energy and the economy, in a move that risks a backlash from Conservative MPs who have had sanctions imposed upon them by Beijing.Sunak will meet the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, at the G20 summit in Bali on Wednesday in last-minute bilateral talks announced late on Tuesday, a day after the prime minister suggested he would row back from categorising China as a “threat”, something his predecessor, Liz Truss, had vowed to do. Continue reading…