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But the misalignment between the two sides remains huge. Blinken said the US will stand up for human rights and “hold Beijing accountable for its efforts to threaten stability in the Indo Pacific” while Yang said the Taiwan issue is the most sensitive for China and that Washington should not interfere with its domestic affairs in Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong. On Monday the Chinese state news agency Xinhua published a commentary that said “candid and constructive” dialogue was needed to better understand each side’s strategic intentions and rebuilt trust.

Departure Lounge spent an informative morning pottering about this small and delightfully eccentric collection last month and, quite by accident, managed to knock up against old William Bligh, that hard taskmaster of mutiny on the Bounty fame. The former naval officer and NSW governor was buried here in 1817, not beside the potting shed but amid other notables behind the cafe larder. The museum is in what used to be St Mary Church on Lambeth Palace Road (near Lambeth Bridge and diagonally across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament).

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