Introduction

This week's china go politics podcast comes to you from the south china morning post bureaus in baging, brussels and here on hong kong island. A delegation of senior chinese officials were refused permission by the house of commons authorities to attend the queen's lying in state. It is one year since the signing of the orcas agreement, tying the australian military to the strategic goals of the us. And it's two days since siin ping left china for the first time in two and a half years, first to visit kasakstan and then to usbekstan for a meeting of the shanghai organization for co operation. We