how are the british as the kind of chair of this event handling this? do you get a sense as you talk to officials off the record that they have a strategy for engaging china on this issue? it s a great question and it s very sensitive and very difficult. because however you look at it, relations between the uk and china are not exactly brilliant. you can pick from a long list of topics that cause tension. hong kong, for example. china s treatment of the uighurs. the fact that the royal navy has just sailed its new aircraft carrier through the south of china. these are all issues that create, if you like, a difficult atmosphere in the run up to this event, and the fact is that the man chairing cop26, the british minister alok sharma, only managed to get to beijing once in the run up to the summit. whereas, on previous occasions, for example, ahead of the paris