China-US diplomatic dance

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The US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has been speaking to the BBC in an exclusive interview about his meeting with the senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi. The meeting lays the ground work for a planned virtual meeting between President Joe Biden and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Also in the programme: Seventy-six years after the end of World War Two, a former guard in a Nazi concentration camp has gone on trial in a courthouse near Berlin, and an interview with the Tanzanian writer, Abdul Razak Gurnah, who today won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Photo: US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan; Credit: Virginia Mayo/Reuters)