It also appears to have thrown a wedge into the fragile governing coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, who came to power in 2010 with a joint promise to reverse the course of the previous Labour government and block any expansion at London's three-largest airports: Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.
Those discussions resulted in a historic joint promise from the US and China in 2014 to strengthen "bilateral cooperation on climate change".
Paul O'Grady's At My Mother's Knee... and Other Low Joints promises rather more substance.
The joint effort promises to test more than 56,000 backlogged "rape kits" in 32 jurisdictions in 20 states, over two years.
He takes the film crew on his personal culinary tour of Houston, from his three-doughnut breakfast to a 10 a.m. burger and fries to his lunch at a steak joint that promises a free meal to any diner who can polish off a 32-ounce deep-fried steak and French fries (not a problem).
A long joint statement promised co-operation on trade, climate change and a range of other issues.
They discussed the issue and, in a joint statement, promised further cooperation between the two countries in dealing with it.
Seeing gobi manchurian listed on the window menu is a sign that you're standing outside a Punjabi, south Indian or Gujarati joint with promise.
The joint report promised increased government aid to rural areas, including expanded subsidies to farmers, greater access to loans and more financing from Beijing for rural development projects.
Before the service, the UK, US and Libyan governments in a joint statement promised to work together to "reveal the full facts of the case", saying that they wanted "all those responsible for this most brutal act of terrorism brought to justice, and to understand why it was committed".
