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UK is a unique situation as well as because of Brexit.

It's looking certain that they are going to crash out of the EU single market without an agreement and without replacement trade agreements in place with other countries.

Now recently China punished Australia by cutting trade as a result of Australia pushing for the COVID-19 investigation. Which given how sensitive they about Huawei and their need to teach the world a lesson gives an indication of how severe their response is likely to be.

UK can hardly afford to impact trading relationships with their number 2, 3, 4 and 5 partners all at the same time as they are dealing with a pretty incompetent COVID-19 response.