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How China is 'owning the future' of global power | BBC Global News Podcast | BBC News

2026-01-28 News & Politics
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Sir Keir Starmer travelled to Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping - the first time a British prime minister has visited the country since 2018. Starmer said he wants to achieve a "comprehensive and consistent approach to China". The visit comes amid controversy over China's alleged human rights abuses and security concerns over a planned Chinese 'mega-embassy' in London. Starmer is the latest of a string of Western leaders to visit China - earlier this month, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Beijing and reached a new trade agreement with China, saying his country was adjusting to a "new reality" of a "new world order", in the wake of US President Trump's agenda and tariffs. While Donald Trump's trade policies have strained ties with traditional US allies, China has been fostering relationships with other countries including the UK, Canada and India. We speak to our China correspondent Laura Bicker from Beijing to discuss the perks and pitfalls of trading with China. Subscribe to the Global News Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or find more episodes here: https://bbc.in/GlobalNewsPodcast Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #China #GlobalPower #BBCNews

Top Comments (10)

@NFurst-n3w 2026-01-28

Where's the BBC's usual rebuttal to China "but at what cost?".

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@samyang5873 2026-01-29

The west is so blind to their own hypocricy. So sad.

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@chifaing6816 2026-01-28

so hilarious to me about their double standards on China.

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@ansa336 2026-01-28

How could BBC reporter with a straight face alleged that China is using slave labour while talking about the extensiveness of their robots?

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@dotexe55games31 2026-01-28

More BBC guff

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@robertbrosseau1208 2026-01-29

And China doesn’t insult its trading partners.

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@sunhoushi1 2026-01-29

I am a UK citizen, born and bred, but one who has spent his entire working life in the East. When I hear a British, English, so-called Global News Podcaster seemingly fail to digest what he is being told by his (regrettably, equally "we're British" BBC biased,) China correspondent, but rather consistently harp on about China's "Human Rights", I cringe. No wonder the world has lost patience with the Brits, and the West as a whole. Have a read at all the comments. China's record on human rights makes the West seem like one huge internment camp for the poor, unbelonging, unrepresented, and weak. China today does a far better job at caring for its people that Britain ever has.

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@fern 2026-01-28

"Human Rights" is one of those American brainwashed theories to scare countries from dealing with China. Have you seen what's going on in the US? The homelessness, the crimes, the abuse and abuse of power, the poverty and the filthy rich Billionaires soon to become Trillionaires laying off thousands of people while they ride around in their Billion dollar yachts.

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@manist3163 2026-01-29

A bad guy always suspects others. A liar always don't trust others thinking that everybody is a liar like himself. The UK and the US both are in this category..

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@NDEWARA 2026-01-29

With the colonial, slavery and opium wars can Britain really talk about human rights

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