Author: Mark Landler
Published on: 15/04/2025 | 00:00:00
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A Crisis at a British Steel Mill Has Cast a Shadow Over U.K.-China Relations Britain has sent a parade of senior officials to China this year. But an emergency move by the British Parliament last weekend to take control of a Chinese-owned British steel mill has struck a discordant note amid all the diplomacy. Britain acted to prevent the Chinese company that owns the plant from shutting down two blast furnaces. China on Monday warned Britain not to politicize the dispute. The dispute comes at an awkward moment for Mr. Starmer’s government. It had set out to improve a relationship that had frayed in recent years. Admiral Tony Radakin, the top official in the British armed forces, traveled to Beijing for meetings with Chinese officials to strengthen military-to-military communication. Such visits almost recall the days of David Cameron, the Conservative prime minister who declared a “golden era” of economic ties between Britain and China. In 2015, he took China’s president, Xi Jinping, out for a pint at a 16th-century pub. Mark Landler is the London bureau chief of The Times. He has been a journalist for more than three decades. See more on: Xi Jinping, Keir Starmer Advertisement .
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