China–United Kingdom relations
Chinese-United Kingdom relations, more commonly known as British–Chinese relations, Anglo-Chinese relations and Sino-British relations, are the interstate relations between China and the United Kingdom.
Michael Shen Fu-Tsung resided in Britain from 1685 to 1688. "The Chinese Convert" by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1687.
British bombardment of Canton from the surrounding heights during the First Opium War, May 1841
Signing of the Treaty of Nanking (1842).
British bombardment of Canton, May 1841
A chargé d'affaires, plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is French for "charged with business", meaning they are responsible for the duties of an ambassador. Chargé is masculine in gender; the feminine form is chargée d'affaires.
Persia's chargé d'affaires and his wife visiting U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at the White House in May 1913