The Sunday Telegraph Business has a front page story thaT deals with Chinese investors have been blocked by regulators world-wide “amid growing doubts over their ability to see through a deal”.  Deals for Chinese investors to buy merchant bank Kleinwort Benson and London City Airport have been abandoned recently.

Although most newspaper articles talk about the French (EDF) investment in the Hinkley C nuclear power station, 25% of the investment is to come from the Chinese. No deal has yet been signed, as it is contingent on the EDF deal being underwritten by the French government.

Add to that the fears that Brexit might cause knock-on problems for Hinkley C and, in the words of Laurel and Hardy:

“That’s another fine mess you’ve got me into, Stanley”!