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Kerry Brown re-examines the UK–China relationship and considers how recent seismic geopolitical events have reframed and recast the UK’s 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 an increasingly anarchic world, Britain’s faltering power is brought into sharp focus through Brown’s incisive analysis of UK–China relations.
— Mark Logan, former MP, Vice-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary China Group
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London. Between 1998–2005 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).
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. Britain’s China future in the world of Brexit, Trump and Xi Jinping