
The plain fact is that the UK needs China as a source of componentry and value-for-money consumer goods – and as a huge potential market to replace the EU, Sean O’Grady writes
As Prince of Wales, Charles was famous for observing many years ago that the aged men of the Chinese Politburo, with their identical dark suits and dyed hair, looked like “ghastly old waxworks”.
More recently, in 2015, he declined to attend a state banquet held for Xi Jinping.
Yet when it comes to matters of statecraft, things are different. Nowhere was this illustrated more clearly than at the coronation concert at Windsor Castle, hosted by the King.
