Theresa May, the UK prime minister, is to attend her first G20 summit this weekend in China, where she will face searching questions from her hosts about her country’s post-Brexit role and what happened to a “golden era” in Sino-UK relations.
Beijjing has been caught off-guard in recent years by sudden political shifts that have toppled allies in countries such as Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
It was stunned when the same thing happened in the UK after the Brexit vote, which one Beijing-based diplomat said struck Chinese officials as “an astonishing exercise in self-marginalisation”.
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