Here in China, locals who follow international politics look down very much on the turmoil in the British parliament.
When the current foreign secretary visited Beijing and introduced his Chinese wife as a Japanese lady to the Chinese cadres, the Chinese media had a feeding frenzy.
I was hauled over the coals by the local public security, 3 days of interviews with my Chinese wife present, and at last I was forced to sign and fingerprint about 25 letters of apology, because my new passport's starting date was prior to the expiry date of my old one, and I had exceeded the 10-day period to visit them to get my new residence permit. I couldn't avoid this time delay because my new passport was issued in the UK and then sent by courier service to Beijing, where I collected it after rail travel to the sloppy outsourced agent there acting for HMPO. When I initially applied for my new passport in Beijing, my old passport was returned to me intact!