2. China
China’s benefit from Brexit is similar to that of India but on a somewhat larger scale. Since its market is more important to the United Kingdom, it stands to reason that Beijing will be able to negotiate a better trading deal. On the other side, China will benefit from smaller and less powerful the European Union. Even with the UK in its fold, Brussels was unable to create a common European policy towards China, allowing Chinese politicians to play divide and conquer by offering juicy deals to certain member states and avoiding a firm European stance on Chinese closed market and one-sided trading practices. While in the short term China may suffer some consequences from the turmoil on the European markets (EU is, after all, its second largest trading partner) in the long run China only stands to gain from Brexit.
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