英国内阁办公室前部长：中国应该关心脱欧吗？(14)_英国内阁办公室前部长奥立弗．莱特文：

We‘re very preoccupied with all the details of， the process of Brexit， which is enormously complicated because it is the first time in history when a country has been removing itself from a trade block． And it’s not just a trade block． It‘s a profound legal order， and with a huge number of different relationships． So we are very concerned in the UK with that．

And in the EU they‘re very concerned with the damage that they fear that Brexit may do to the EU． But I don’t think anybody really is talking about whether this somehow effects geopolitics and the relationship between the east and the west．

And the first thing I should say is that there‘s some obvious results of Brexit it if indeed it does finally happen．

And the first is that for many， many years since the UK joined the EU， global trade policy on global trade relationships have not been conducted by the UK government． They‘ve been conducted by the EU commission． So whereas china’s trading relationship with the US is conducted with the US government， not at the moment， a very easy relationship．