Is Starmer’s China visit a lose-lose trip?

Starmer was looking for win-win, Golden Era opportunities from his China visit, but the reality has yielded few tangible outcomes, writes Sam Goodman Keir Starmer’s visit to Beijing this week has been a carefully stage-managed affair with both sides keen to talk up the prospect of a new and improved “sophisticated relationship”. Some have likened the trip’s tone and focus on “win-win” trade opportunities as akin to the Cameron government’s “Golden Era” of relations with China, which ran from 2010 until 2016. The high-level production of this state visit makes sense given that a quarter of the UK trade delegation…