Not to mention those on the right who like to get on their high horse about human rights yet represent parties whose stated aim is to abandon the European Convention on, er, Human Rights.
Like it or not, China is a massively wealthy and powerful country. I’d rather be in their good books and they are a far more reliable trading partner than the USA at present which is showing itself to be unreliable at best and downright hostile at worst depending on the whims of it’s mentally unstable leader with a fragile ego.
As Drone says, a cautious welcome.