Nations that avoided China in recent years are now sending their leaders to Beijing for meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Buffeted by tariffs and trade tensions, Prime Minister Keir Starmer took British business leaders to China and emerged with deals on visas and Scotch whisky, as well as pledges to deepen ties.

A Chinese-led research team has identified Asia's first recorded amphibian footprint fossils from the Middle Jurassic period in Beijing, filling a major gap in the study of Jurassic amphibian trace fossils in China and the wider region.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is pictured alongside China's Xi Jinping on most of Friday's papers.

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In a major shift to the world order since President Donald Trump took office again, America’s closest partners are exploring opportunities with China following clashes with Trump over tariffs and his demands to take over Greenland from NATO ally Denmark.

Analysts expect the U.S.-China trade truce to hold as Beijing bets Trump won’t follow through on his threats ahead of a leaders’ meeting in April.

China is set to lift restrictions which ​it had imposed on a group of British parliamentarians, prime minister Keir Starmer said on ‍Friday. This means they will now be free to travel to China.