Burnham’s Britain can learn from Trump in engaging with China

Getting relations with China right is widely seen as Britain’s epoch-defining challenge.

It is also one it is woefully unprepared to face.

So concluded a recent audit by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), which highlighted that top negotiators lacked basic Chinese language skills.

More critically, it exposed a deeper deficit: a poor grasp of China spanning political elites and the public alike.

This is rooted in a desk-bound classroom sinology rather than a nuanced appreciation...