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    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
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      Macron rolls out red carpet for King Charles

      Monarch’s three-day trip comes as Franco-British relationship is on stronger footing after tense Brexit period

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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
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      Starmer heads to Paris for Macron talks to set out post-Brexit stall

      UK’s opposition leader pledges to repair relations with EU leaders but may find they have other priorities

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    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
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      Sunak admits UK needs more investment to combat China’s security challenge

      Prime minister responds to parliamentary criticism of Britain’s approach to spying by Beijing

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Sunak urged to conduct ‘full audit’ of UK-China relations

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    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Rishi Sunak launched China reset despite alleged spy arrest

      Prime minister was told about parliamentary researcher’s arrest shortly after incident in March

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    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Inside Politics
      What the spy saga reveals about UK-China relations

      The inevitable consequence of events will mean further demands for greater distance

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    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
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      Arrest of alleged spy raises questions around UK’s China policy

      Critics say London is too soft on Beijing as MPs ask whether their safety is at risk

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    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
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      Senior UK minister says ‘strong case’ for new action against China

      Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden confirms that government is considering tougher controls on Beijing

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    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
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      China accused of interfering in UK ‘parliamentary democracy’

      Rishi Sunak’s comments come after arrest of parliamentary researcher on suspicion of spying for Beijing

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    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
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      Sunak and Modi bolster UK-India trade talks

      British prime minister says London and New Delhi can ‘work through’ hurdles stalling a free trade agreement

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    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Rishi Sunak looks to boost UK profile at G20 summit

      Debut trip to India as British prime minister is aimed at spurring domestic electoral hopes and trade talks

      UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, left, meeting Indian minister of state Ashwini Kumar Choubey at Indira Gandhi airport in New Delhi, India on September 8 2023
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
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      Rishi Sunak to press Narendra Modi to take a more active stance on the conflict

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    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
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      In search of a British China strategy

      UK needs to balance commerce, security and human rights

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    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Cleverly seeks to repair British relations with China

      UK foreign secretary stresses need for improved dialogue while highlighting differences

      British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shake hands
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      Cleverly’s pragmatic China stance clashes with Tory hawks

      Foreign secretary rejects calls from sceptics including his former boss Liz Truss to designate Beijing a ‘threat’

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    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      British policy on China lacks clarity and coherence, say MPs

      Report urges foreign secretary to publish more details of strategy as he prepares for talks in Beijing

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    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      UK foreign secretary hits back at Tory critics of China policy

      James Cleverly says a failure to engage with Beijing and seek investment would be a sign of ‘weakness’

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      The west must stop playing the ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan once and for all

      Current policy is harming the prospects of those who need our help most, particularly women and girls

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    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
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      UK-India trade talks intensify in bid to remove ‘significant’ barriers

      Kemi Badenoch seeks progress with New Delhi this week but officials say full agreement unlikely ahead of G20 summit

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    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
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      UK asked to obtain assurances from UAE over right to protest at COP28

      Human-rights activists have reacted with scepticism to pledge by oil-rich Gulf state it will allow climate demonstrations

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    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
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      Lebanon’s ex-central bank chief hit with sanctions for alleged graft

      US, Canada and UK say Riad Salameh and several associates engaged in ‘unlawful self-enrichment schemes’

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    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      UK economy
      Sunak weighs following Biden on curbing tech investment in China

      British government is consulting business before responding to Washington’s new restrictions on US capital

      Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden at the Nato summit in Vilnius last month
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      UK government split over listing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists

      Home secretary Suella Braverman in stand-off with foreign secretary James Cleverly over move

      Suella Braverman is increasingly concerned that Iranian agents are plotting to kill British citizens,
    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      UK ordered to apologise to academic over alleged torture in UAE

      Parliamentary ombudsman attacks ‘profound failure’ of embassy staff to spot signs of alleged mistreatment

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