{"id":308628,"date":"2025-12-10T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308628\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:02:09","slug":"china-says-no-discussion-with-british-side-on-date-of-pm-keir-starmers-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308628\/","title":{"rendered":"China says no discussion with British side on date of PM Keir Starmer&#8217;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c225be021d3f8b2a8eb0e5ee470862a3.png\"\/>Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun responds during the regular press conference in Beijing on June 16, 2025. (PHOTO \/ CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY)<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Wednesday that China and the United Kingdom have not yet discussed any specific dates or arrangements for a possible visit by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/624706#Blowing-&#039;hot-and-cold&#039;-won&#039;t-benefit-the-UK--2025-12-03\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guo made the remarks in response to media reports claiming that Starmer is expected to visit Beijing and Shanghai from Jan 29 to 31.<\/p>\n<p>He said China attaches importance to improving and developing China-UK relations, and is ready to strengthen exchanges and communication at various levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as I know, the Chinese side has not yet discussed specific issues such as the dates of Prime Minister Starmer&#8217;s visit to China with the UK side,&#8221; Guo said at a regular news briefing in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun responds during the regular press conference in Beijing on June 16, 2025. (PHOTO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[123265,891,123262,59,57,58,50,123263,1708,56,123264,54,55],"class_list":["post-308628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-a-possible-visit","tag-china","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-specific-dates-or-arrangements","tag-the-united-kingdom","tag-uk","tag-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}