Dr. Robin Niblett is the Director of Chatham House, a london-based international-affairs think tank.
He says Sino-British relations are currently in the best shape in history.
He attributes it largely to the booming bilateral trade.
"It is the economics that are driving the quality of the relationship right now. The United Kingdom is on a big push to increase its exports to emerging markets, and the biggest emerging market obviously is China. And the one country with which the UK has really increased its exports in the last five years has been with China, doubled from some seven billion pounds to about 15 billion pounds in this period. So the export relationship
