As an addition:

Ten years on, Brexit’s economic impact is becoming clearer

… The UK Trade Policy Observatory at Sussex University calculated a rapid 26% reduction in the different types of UK exports by 2023, while a new study from Aston University Business School using five years of more detailed trade data concludes a loss of 53.8% of the type of exports and 31.5% for imports …

UK trade with Europe had been on an upward trend before 2016. But official figures show that compared to 2019, 2025 UK exports to the EU were 14% down and imports were down 10%.

And they’ve been getting worse. Last year, 2025, was the worst year for UK goods export volumes to the EU this century, apart from one year in the depths of the financial crisis …

Think tank Niesr calculates exports were 16.9% lower and imports 16.1% less than what could have been expected based on positive pre-2016 trends. The Centre for European Reform uses a different method, trying to take account of what could have happened if the UK had not been excluded from a more recent surge in intra-EU trade, leading to a goods trade hit of 16% to exports and 14% to imports …

One area that has performed more strongly since 2016 is services … Services sector exports from the UK to the EU are up 57% over the last decade [but] it is also true that there has been a service boom across the advanced world and some argue Britain might have done even better without Brexit …

Investment by businesses was significantly lower than what might have continued after Brexit, according to two studies. Former Bank of England independent economist Jonathan Haskel calculates a £29bn or 1.3% reduction in the size of the economy from lower investment than would have been expected since 2016 …

Business investment flattened in real terms immediately after 2016, and notably underperformed various measures of UK long term-trends and comparisons with other countries …

The most visible sign of economic shock was the fall in the value of the pound in the minutes and then years after the referendum. This makes imports and travel more expensive, and makes UK assets worth less in the world …

The Iran war may ‘fueling China’s clean energy surge’ (don’t know what the Trump-Xi talks have to do with it), but China has not displaced coal, the most polluting fossil fuel.

China consumes over 50% of global coal supply, supposedly because coal is the only fossil fuel it doesn’t have to import and it wants to maintain energy self-sufficiency. In January and February 2026 alone, China added 20 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity.

This partly explains why China is not on track to meet its 2060 carbon neutrality goal, according to climate think tank, Carbon Action Tracker. And it will not get better, according to the Chinese Communist Party’s recently released 15th five-year plan: compared to the 14th five-year plan, China’s goals for non-fossil energy additions would see China’s annual green energy additions fall by more than half in the next five years, while at the same time, fossil fuel energy consumption would increase by 8-10%,

This is about to reverse the slow-down in fossil fuel energy consumption during the 14th five-year plan period.

But OP is spreading their propaganda.

The Chinese government picks on everyone it seems, it has nothing to do specifically with the UK or any country.

The issue here is that malign foreign state actors are threatening European and politicians of other democracies to influence decision making, with China and Russia have been singled out here.

Many apparently don’t even read the paraphrased summary before engaging in whataboutism. Is this good?

I’d say it’s more Xi Jinping as European providers are also banned in China, no?

That leads the UK in the wrong direction.

Contrary to that, the EU is set to ban Chinese universities from half of Horizon Europe, including health care and defense research in the 2026-27 research programme. Here is a paywalled report on it or the original EU Horizon draft paper (opens pdf) stating that, “Legal entities established in China are not eligible to participate in Innovation Actions in any capacity.”