This entire situation in the UK is entirely the fault of the government in the UK not caring at all about the welfare of Scottish and Irish and making decisions entirely without there input. Hence this is on them and them alone and it is good for China to have no input there since really, it is karmic in a way where the UK has done everything they could to screw with HK and cause separation to the mainland and thinking there is no consequence and yet a real separation is occurring right now (or the early stages of one) with entirely no interference from anyone else but there own stupidity. This is justice for all the stupid things the UK has done around the world and sooner or later if they fail to change, they will soon no longer be United any more and thus become easy pickings for anyone that has a beef with the UK (which is almost nearly everyone at this point). The UK has fallen a lot from it once high position of bullying China at the start of the 19th century with impunity to now basically destroying itself with almost no real input from China.