Evening Briefing · Monday 2 November 2026
Commons committee says government has failed to deliver China strategy
The Business and Trade Committee’s first report on doing business with China concludes the government has not delivered its 2024 promise of a strategic, long-term approach. Ministers began re-engagement “without having finalised its China audit or published a strategy”, the 102-page report says.
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The committee cites the eleventh-hour blocking of Ming Yang’s £1.5 billion wind-turbine factory on unspecified national-security grounds, after years of negotiation, and the emergency takeover of British Steel from its Chinese owners, as decisions characterised by “reactivity”. The critique lands as Downing Street seeks Chinese investment for growth while tightening security reviews — a tension the still-unpublished China audit was meant to resolve.