00:00I'm in front of the Foreign Office of the UK where China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi
00:04has met his UK counterpart David Lammy to restart China-UK Strategic Dialogue.
00:10It's a mechanism initiated in 2010 to enhance bilateral ties and facilitate direct engagement
00:16between China and UK senior officials but it was effectively suspended in 2018.
00:23Today they talked about common ground that they can find including trade and investment,
00:28health and climate action, also some areas where they would like to find common ground
00:32in the future including Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
00:35China-UK relations have experienced notable shifts over the past decade.
00:40From the so-called Golden Era in 2015 declared by former Prime Minister David Cameron,
00:46Chiu is cooling under Rishi Sunak in 2022.
00:50Now the Labour government is trying to reassess bilateral ties.
00:55Which is why we see a flurry of diplomatic activity between the two countries over the
01:00past eight months.
01:01And Wang Yi's visit to London signifies a step forward for China-UK bilateral ties.
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