Kerry Brown re-examines the UKChina relationship and considers how recent seismic geopolitical events have reframed and recast the UKs future engagement with China. At a time of heightened international insecurities and fractured global relations, the need to actively engage with China and to understand its ambitions and values, argues Kerry Brown, remains as strong as ever.
In this updated and revised edition, Kerry Brown re-examines the UKChina relationship and considers how the seismic geopolitical events of the past five years may have reframed and recast the UKs future engagement with China.
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In an increasingly anarchic world, Britains faltering power is brought into sharp focus through Browns incisive analysis of UKChina relations. -- Mark Logan, former MP, Vice-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary China Group
1. Setting the scene: the British China story
2. Tales from the Golden Era
3. What does China want from the UK?
4. Walk on by: what does Britain really want from China?
5. Who cares? China and the British people
6. Britains China future in the world of Brexit, Trump and Xi Jinping
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at Kings College London. Between 19982005 he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including three years at the British embassy in Beijing. He is the author of over twenty books on the politics of modern China, including most recently, The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future (2024).
