The Rt Hon David Lammy MP recently spent two days in China, emphasising that the UK will take a consistent, strategic and pragmatic approach to its dealings with the country Prior to leaving for China on what is only the second such trip by a top UK minister in six years, Mr Lammy said that “engagement with China is pragmatic and necessary to support UK and global interests…we must speak …
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Sam Godsland, Senior Programme Director at Wilton Park, explores how Britain can grow a new tradition of ‘normal’ dialogue with China in a rapidly changing world The visit of David Cameron and Xi Jinping to the Plough Inn at Cadsden, Buckinghamshire in 2015 has come to be seen as the defining moment of the ‘Golden Era’ of UK-China relations. The scene suggests a sense of normality; two men arrive in a pub, …