amoral toffs in high places
Because the Chinese are communists who think Britain is run by corrupt network of upper class twits doing favours for each other and all you have to do it be a chum of somebody in government and you can get anything approved.
This revelation needs no special inisght. Even Steve Wonder can see that.
England's old boy network if full of upper class twits who can provide a veneer of respectability for any crook, oligarch, dictator or corrupt politician - once the fat cheque has cleared of course.