{"id":397673,"date":"2026-01-29T23:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397673\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:14:12","slug":"astrazeneca-announces-11-billion-investment-in-china-months-after-snubbing-britain-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397673\/","title":{"rendered":"AstraZeneca Announces \u00a311 Billion Investment in China Months After Snubbing Britain \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca today announced it will invest \u00a311 billion into China. Just months after giving Britain the cold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/money\/markets\/article-15093127\/AstraZenecas-200m-blow-Labour-pharma-giant-scraps-major-investment.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shoulder<\/a> over a comparatively modest investment at home\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In September the firm binned plans for a \u00a3200 million expansion of its Cambridge research hub and shelved a \u00a3450 million overhaul of its Liverpool vaccine plant over how much the NHS pays for medicines. The deal would have created 1,000 jobs in the UK. Instead, the cash is now heading east, increasing AstraZeneca\u2019s China workforce to more than 20,000. Keir Starmer said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAstraZeneca\u2019s expansion and leadership in China will help the British manufacturer continue to grow \u2013 supporting thousands of UK jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far Starmer\u2019s Beijing jolly has delivered visa-free travel for Britons staying under 30 days. What has he given up in return\u2026<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAstra\u2019s a great British company but under this government it\u2019s investing everywhere in the world other than its UK home. When we are losing investment to communist China, alarm bells should be ringing in No 10 Downing Street.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca today announced it will invest \u00a311 billion into China. Just months after giving Britain the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,891,59,93070,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-397673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-china","tag-gb","tag-golden-keir-a","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397673","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=397673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}