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>China was previously supposed to be involved but dropped out in favour of their own system.
Whina was a member. They only left after they had received all the sensitive information they needed. You are probably not going to believe the story so I am not repeating it here again. The interested will have no problems locating a lot of articles about that information heist, straight out of Mission Impossible.
China is a powerful trade partner so EU is not complaining to them, not that it would help. It probably feels a lot better to kick the UK instead. Kinda vents some frustration, I guess.