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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

China’s leading state-run newspaper calls on UK to return ‘stolen’ artifacts ahead of James Cleverly visit

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A leading Chinese state-run newspaper has urged the British Museum to return its "stolen" artifacts in an editorial on the eve of a rare visit by the UK foreign secretary.

The statement came in Monday’s edition of the Global Times just two days before James Cleverly's scheduled arrival in Beijing on Wednesday, in what would be the first visit by a British foreign secretary to China in five years.

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