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Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Said with tiers in their eyes



Cooper says UK and China have 'shared interest' in rules-based order

The rules-based international order is in Britain and China’s “shared interest”, Yvette Cooper said as she met the country’s vice-president Han Zheng for talks on global security as part of a three-day visit to Asia.

The Foreign Secretary acknowledged “areas of disagreement” between London and Beijing but insisted that approaching discussions with “candour and respect” would help to increase mutual understanding of one another.

Greeting the minister in the capital’s Great Hall of the People on Tuesday, Mr Han hailed a “new chapter in bilateral ties” which he said had been opened during Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to the country in January.



You British have sold your souls for something less than the conventional mess of pottage. You are ruled in the first place by money-bags, and the faddists whom they support to blind your eyes.

John Buchan - The Half-Hearted (1900)

2 comments:

DiscoveredJoys said...

I have seen no evidence that China follows "The rules-based international order" unless it suits them as a temporary misdirection. How quaint that Yvette Cooper thinks Britain and China have shared interests beyond the transactional.

dearieme said...

Who is Britain's greatest enemy: France, the USA, Russia, China, Weird Ed?

Obvs it's Thoroughly Modern Mili.