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Helen Chandler-Wilde: Has Starmer Found a UK-China Solution?

The Prime Minister flies to China, amid debate over geopolitical trade-offs

Keir Starmer last night

Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg
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The American economist Thomas Sowell once said: “There are no solutions, only trade offs.”

It appears this is not a philosophy accepted by Keir Starmer, as he sets off on his trip to China tonight.