Rosalind Matheson
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It's not an easy visit.
It will be a very delicate one for Starmer to balance.
As he says, you know, like a lot of leads he's talking about, we're not trying to take a side here.
He'll keep talking about the importance of the US relationship.
But equally, he'll want to come away from this China visit with some proper deals in the bag and to show it's not just rhetoric.
It's not an easy visit.
It will be a very delicate one for Starmer to balance.
As he says, you know, like a lot of leads he's talking about, we're not trying to take a side here.
He'll keep talking about the importance of the US relationship.
But equally, he'll want to come away from this China visit with some proper deals in the bag and to show it's not just rhetoric.
They would hold the proceeds in Treasury accounts, which means that creditors can't really get their hands on that money, at least for some time.
The impact on the market remains to be seen.
I mean, Venezuelan oil is not a key one in the market at the moment, a market that's already very well supplied.
I mean, Donald Trump is talking about up to 50 million barrels of oil being available.
That seems quite optimistic, given that Venezuela is only really pumping at the most one million barrels