Little known fact - both the EU and US have signed trade related deals with China this year.
The US-China deal of January mostly on purchasing agricultural goods. Now the EU-China deal on Geographical Indications.
One could look at this and suggest that the EU-US rivalry on agriculture trade is more important to them than the dangers of China.
One could look at this and suggest that the EU-US rivalry on agriculture trade is more important to them than the dangers of China.
The relationship between foreign policy and trade is not entirely straightforward, but let's just say other countries will not be shy of separating them, even if the UK decides otherwise, that we should avoid greater trade and investment with China.
Trade politics is a pretty cynical business. Best we learn this and find our own way, rather than trying to fall into line with a major power and then find they just changed their minds because of their domestic farming lobby.
Of course if one was being cynical about the UK's trade policy it could be pointed out that openness to inward investment *of sometimes questionable origin* was a core part of it.
Incidentally... 
