Neither Prime Minister Keir Starmer nor President Xi Jinping publicly mentioned Donald Trump, but the U.S. president’s challenge to the post-Cold War order was clearly on their minds. “I think that working together on issues like climate change, global stability during challenging times for the world is precisely what we should be doing as we build this relationship in the way that I’ve described,” Starmer told Xi at the start of their meeting in Beijing. Starmer is the first British prime minister to visit China in eight years. Xi appeared to acknowledge the criticism that Starmer has faced for reaching out to China despite national security and human rights concerns. He told Xi that it has “been far too long” since a U.K. prime minister visited.