New UK leader expected to promote Sino-UK relations

Going, going, and finally gone. That Theresa May's tenure as British prime minister has come to an end with the announcement of her resignation on Friday is no surprise to people both inside and outside Britain. After all, as the British leader tasked with taking her country out of the European Union, she failed to produce an acceptable deal for the country to proceed with its exit from the EU.

The deeply unpopular Brexit deal she repeatedly and vainly tried to push through Parliament not only put an end to her own political life but also enlarged the partisan and social divide over whether and how Britain should leave the EU.

Whoever succeeds May will face the formidable tasks of finding a solution to the Brexit dilemma and bringing certainty and confidence to the United Kingdom's relations with its major international partners, including China.