As Coppers know, in a recent interview LDN said ‘we don’t need...

As Coppers know, in a recent interview LDN said ‘we don’t need China’.
This came after the company had been closely engaged with Chinese organisations for sometime, and was contemplating establishing a presence in Shanghai. LDN said earlier that if not for Covid, he would have spent most of Feb’20 in China.
Now BRN doesn’t need China.
We can speculate on why this quite sudden change occurred (NASA, Pentagon etc) but I now wonder how much of a look at Akida the company gave the Chinese organisations they were talking with?
No doubt we’ll discover this soon rather than later.