Writing for the Hill on Tuesday, a top British think tank director calls on new prime minister Boris Johnson embrace China. It’s sad to see Chatham House, a former intellectual leader of the liberal international order, now so servile to Beijing.

Sadly, such servility is the only way to understand director Robin Niblett’s words. He says that former Prime Minister Theresa May “quickly learned — as Boris Johnson will — that Britain would benefit greatly from increasing its relatively low level of exports to China, attracting more Chinese investment into U.K. energy and transport infrastructure, and having British financial and service companies participate in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.”