The prime minister is ending his trip by travelling home via Tokyo where he’s holding talks with his Japanese counterpart.
Before he left Shanghai, he appeared alongside actor Rosamund Pike to highlight the work of the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company in China and the UK’s so-called soft power or cultural capital.
Economically the numbers involved in this trip have not been that big. For example one of the biggest wins, the cut to whisky tariffs, is only worth £50 million a year.
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A couple of other announcements made in China are that Pop Mart, the maker of the Labubu dolls, is making a London it’s European hub.
And Chery Commercial Vehicles is making Liverpool their European HQ. All that is worth a few hundred jobs – again positive, but relatively small scale.
As ever with jobs and investment announcements, you can ask whether the visit helped get them over the line or was just a high profile event to attach them to.
The bigger strategic picture of this week has been a thawing of relations with China – tilting the balance of that relationship towards greater cooperation and slightly away from the confrontation of recent years.
What none of it is likely to do – at least for many years – is make much difference at all to the prime minister’s big priorities of economic growth and the cost of living.
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