China and the UK (and elsewhere in the West) aren’t comparable, for better or worse. Over there you have absolute compliance with rules and restrictions and brutal (literally?) enforcement with effective tracing. Here you have half-hearted, reluctant or no compliance and a sizeable market in conspiracists. Here we have near zero enforcement unless you are really taking the pee - go out anywhere and you’ll see rule-breakers all over the place but police are nowhere to be seen. Here as is well documented we have ineffective track and trace.
Without a vaccine we are not going to have China’s level of ‘success’ anytime soon. And this is where the case of the Lawrence Fox’s of the country and the anti-vaxxers falls. They want the freedoms but oppose to the very measures necessary to give those freedoms because they are freedom-limiting. Neither by and large do they want or trust a vaccine, which would give them the freedom they want without the restrictions they detest.