No business need at all now for a Chinese nuclear plant in the UK

Halting Huawei hurts 5G rollout and Sino-British ties, but stopping a Chinese nuclear power plant in Essex has virtually no fallout

Get ready for the new Huawei" is the word from Westminster, meaning another flare-up in UK-China business and political relations, this time over Chinese involvement in the UK's nuclear power programme.

Ditching state-owned China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) would indeed be a political development on a political par with a Huawei exclusion. The 2016 agreement, which imagined CGN's progressive entry" into the UK's resurgent" nuclear ambitions, was given maximum hype at the time by both Beijing and David Cameron's government.