Twenty-six votes, thirteen apiece: as flat a finish as this chamber produces, and a fitting one for a question that pits fears of unfair Chinese state subsidy against Britain's enthusiasm for cheap ecommerce. There was no majority to be found anywhere near the centre of this vote.
The only group with a workable sample, 25-34 year-olds, mirrored the national tie precisely at 6-6, suggesting the deadlock isn't a quirk of small numbers but a genuine split running through the demographic that actually showed up. Older and younger cohorts leaned yes, though on counts too thin to trust — the 35-44 group, six of them, tilted hardest to no at just 17% yes, the sharpest lean in the data.
Gender told the same story of near-perfect balance: men split 10-9 for yes, women exactly 3-3. There's no obvious fault line of sex or generation here, only the broader argument familiar from Huawei, TikTok and now Chinese EVs — how far Britain should let strategic anxiety about Beijing-linked capital override the case for consumer choice and cheap imports.
When a chamber this size can't produce a single vote of separation, the real verdict may be that nobody has yet decided what kind of problem JD.com actually is.
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