Would that you are correct, sad thing is the uk government has steadily denuded our manufacturing/production bases for years through its policies, intentional or not, and now they blame anything and everyone else for their folly. The last 10 or so has seen mainly big multinational types succeed on the backs of smaller innovative ones. There isn't very much "British" left.
I think the main problem with Chinese honey is that a lot of it is not actually produced by bees at all. Their Alibaba website apparently openly lists rice syrup for addition to honey. Our local council (Richmond-upon-Thames) tested Tesco’s own brand honey and found it was fake. Unfortunately the test using NMR is expensive so other councils are unlikely to follow suit in a hurry. Conventional tests are apparently no good at detecting fake honey as the chemical composition of the syrup is very similar to that of the honey.
I also think a person’s sense of taste and smell is useful too.
This adulterated product would probably not taste or smell as complex and floral as the genuine article.