Britain’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Foreign Secretary David Lammy have both visited China in recent months as part of the Labour government\u2019s \u201cpragmatic re-engagement\u201d with Beijing.<\/p>\n
Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein has also been eyeing London for its controversial IPO<\/a> and Reeves recently said the British capital was the \u201cnatural home\u201d for China\u2019s money.<\/p>\n \u201cBeware of authoritarian mercantilist regimes bearing gifts,\u201d Navarro said.<\/p>\n Navarro, one of the few officials to survive Trump\u2019s entire first term, is a long-term critic of China and is the driving force behind the bid to isolate Beijing and return manufacturing to the U.S.<\/p>\n Despite Labour ministers’ visits to China, the U.K. government’s relationship with Beijing appears<\/a> to have become cooler in recent weeks. <\/p>\n It has forced Chinese company Jingye to give up control of British Steel<\/a>, launched a review into the tax rules<\/a> fueling e-commerce giants like Temu and Shein, and moved to ban solar panels<\/a> linked to forced labor in Xinjiang from state-backed energy projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Foreign Secretary David Lammy have both visited China in recent months as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,1395,6217,32,1396,6314,35,393,8812,4884,8175,5167,2441,1144,36695,619,712,1218,479,1200,1201,6717,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-74145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-david-lammy","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-dumping-duties","14":"tag-e-commerce","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-eu-china-relations","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-labor","20":"tag-manufacturing","21":"tag-markets","22":"tag-northern-ireland","23":"tag-peter-navarro","24":"tag-rachel-reeves","25":"tag-scotland","26":"tag-steel","27":"tag-tariffs","28":"tag-tax","29":"tag-trade","30":"tag-transatlantic-relations","31":"tag-uk","32":"tag-united-kingdom","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114450235644482324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}