By the Editor: Responding to the ‘poise’ or ‘presence’ experiment in the last edition of the Review, the author proffers a compelling argument for the former based on a pragmatic assessment of UK capacity for engaging in ‘the great game’ in a post-Brexit world. Fig. 1: The Middle Kingdom. A Napoleonic precept remains relevant: “China is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep. For when she awakes, she will shake the world.” We are now living that arousal. The priority of the Chinese Government is to safeguard the achievements obtained since 1947 and maintain the primacy of the Party. Chinese territoria…
