The prime minister sketches out a new approach - but we don't know yet what it will mean in practice.
But he still wants to warm the relationship up, compared to where it's been in the meantime.
And you have to go back to Theresa May's time in Downing Street for the last face-to-face meeting, when she travelled to Beijing early in 2018.As it happens, the formal meeting in Bali between Mr Sunak and President Xi got cancelled because both leaders' diaries were upended by the, killing two people and briefly sparking concern of a confrontation between NATO and Russia.
Rishi Sunak's argument is the UK "simply cannot ignore China's significance in world affairs," as it extends to economic stability, climate change and food security.
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