Wang Yi Meets with UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper_Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Individuals’s Republic of China

On February 13, 2026 native time, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

Wang Yi said that as main nations on the planet and everlasting members of the United Nations Security Council, China and the UK bear the duty of safeguarding worldwide peace and safety. Both sides ought to keep common exchanges, improve strategic coordination and communication, develop widespread pursuits, and safeguard world peace and improvement. Not way back, Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a profitable historic go to to China, which revived China-UK relations. President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed to develop a long-term and steady complete strategic partnership and reached broad widespread understandings on bilateral and multilateral cooperation, which met the expectations of all sectors for the regular improvement of China-UK relations.

Wang Yi stated that the 2 sides ought to comply with via on the widespread understandings reached by the leaders of each nations, repeatedly ship constructive outcomes for bilateral relations, and discover extra cooperation potential. The two sides ought to make sure the success of a brand new spherical of the Economic and Financial Dialogue, the Joint Economic and Trade Committee assembly, and the China-UK Strategic Dialogue, restore regular exchanges between the legislative our bodies of the 2 nations, and foster nearer people-to-people exchanges. China helps free commerce and opposes any type of protectionism. Enterprises from the UK and different nations are welcome to spend money on China and make good use of platforms such because the China International Import Expo to develop exports to China. Wang Yi expressed the hope that the UK will present a good, simply and non-discriminatory enterprise atmosphere for Chinese enterprises.

Yvette Cooper said that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s go to to China was an entire success with fruitful outcomes, enjoying an vital function within the improvement of UK-China relations. Building a long-term and steady complete strategic partnership between the UK and China serves the strategic pursuits of either side. On the Taiwan query, the UK has lengthy adhered to the coverage it adopted because the institution of diplomatic relations, and the coverage has not modified and won’t change. The UK is keen to work with China to comply with via on the widespread understandings reached by the leaders of the 2 nations, advance institutional dialogues in numerous fields, develop cooperation in commerce, funding, finance, local weather, safety, inexperienced know-how and different fields, and correctly handle variations. The UK upholds multilateralism and the worldwide rule of legislation. The two sides can strengthen multilateral communication and coordination to contribute to world peace and safety.

The two sides additionally exchanged views on worldwide and regional points, together with the Ukraine disaster, Sudan, and Iran.