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Lammy plans China trip in move that signals Britain wants to thaw relations

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August 10, 2024

David Lammy is planning a visit to China in September that would fall within the first 100 days of his taking office.

- Eleni Courea

Lammy plans China trip in move that signals Britain wants to thaw relations

The foreign secretary is in talks over a trip to Beijing next month that would signal that the UK wants to resume high-level engagement with the country.

No date has been officially confirmed. A Foreign Office spokesperson said: "Foreign secretary travel will be confirmed in the usual way." Lammy had planned to travel to China while Labour was still in opposition this summer, but his trip was postponed when the general election was called.

After Labour won the election, Lammy met China's foreign minister Wang Yi at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on 26 July.

The FCDO said that at the meeting in Laos, the foreign secretary "set out that the government would cooperate where we can, compete where needed and challenge where we must".

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