The United Kingdom has announced that its trade minister will travel to Taiwan for talks on various issues related to access to the Taiwanese market and to increase collaboration on technology and innovation.

In a hearing before Britain’s High Court this week, a Uyghur rights group argued that the British government has failed to investigate the importation of cotton produced with forced labor in Xinjiang, in violation of UK law.

Last week, a UK government department slightly modified the deadlines for its telecoms companies to remove Huawei products from its 5G network.

Last week, the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, issued an order that prevents the acquisition of a UK electronic design firm by a Hong Kong company, on the basis that it "is necessary and proportionate to mitigate the risk to national security.

An acquisition of a U.S./UK pharmaceutical company by a company with China ties is being reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and its UK counterpart.

Last week, the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy published a notice of final order that, based on national security concerns, blocked a Chinese company from licensing vision sensing technology from a UK university.

Last week, the UK Parliament had separate discussions of two big issues related to China trade, forced labor and security, in which members of Parliament raised concerns and called for action.