{"id":7634,"date":"2024-08-23T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=7634"},"modified":"2024-08-23T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T13:26:59","slug":"xi-seeks-common-wins-in-first-talk-with-uks-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/xi-seeks-common-wins-in-first-talk-with-uks-starmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi seeks &#8216;common wins&#8217; in first talk with UK&#8217;s Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday he hoped to achieve &#8220;common wins&#8221; with the United Kingdom in his first conversation with new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, state broadcaster CCTV reported.<\/p>\n<p>China was Britain&#8217;s fifth-largest trading partner as of 2023, according to official UK statistics, but diplomatic relations have been icy in recent years as the countries sparred over Beijing&#8217;s tightening control over former British colony Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>During a phone call between the two leaders on Friday afternoon, Xi congratulated Starmer on assuming the prime minister&#8217;s role last month, CCTV said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China is willing to conduct equal dialogue with the UK side on the basis of mutual respect&#8230; (and) expand cooperation in the fields of finance, green economy, artificial intelligence, etc.,&#8221; Xi was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese president added that he aimed to &#8220;make mutual benefits and common wins the fundamental tone of China-UK relations&#8221;, CCTV said.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Premier Li Qiang on July 7 was the first senior leader from the country to publicly congratulate Starmer on becoming prime minister two days before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday he hoped to achieve &#8220;common wins&#8221; with the United Kingdom in his first conversation with new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, state broadcaster CCTV reported. China was Britain&#8217;s fifth-largest trading partner as of 2023, according to official UK statistics, but diplomatic relations have been icy in recent years as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7635,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions\/7635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}