British foreign minister David Lammy on Saturday called for a resumption of dialogue between London and Beijing, urging the two sides to engage in "more diplomacy" as he concluded a rare diplomatic visit to China. China and Britain are seeking to reset ties frayed in recent years by Beijing's security crackdown in Hong Kong and human rights concerns including in its troubled Xinjiang region.
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00:00It's very important for me to be here in China just after 100 days in government.
00:21UK policy in the past under the last government was not consistent and what I'm hearing is
00:28that we need consistency in our approach. I believe what you need is more diplomacy
00:35not less.
00:58Let's be clear there are values areas where the UK government and our cultural approach
01:04will be different to China's and there are important areas of national security where
01:10we will always put the UK national interests first.