Cameron is right to schmooze the Chinese

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Cameron is right to schmooze the Chinese

Niall Ferguson 

24 October 2015 | The Times

The prime minister is neatly repositioning Britain alongside the world's rising power, Just as the US did 40 years ago. 

To listen to some people — from the Speaker of the House of Commons to the leader of the Opposition — you would think that the Jedi had invited the Emperor Palpatine to discuss increased investment by the Death Star in the planet Tatooine. 

President Xi Jinping's state visit to London this week provided a rare opportunity for left and right to unite. Fraser Nelson, the usually astute editor of The Spectator, accused David Cameron and George Osborne of "the longest kowtow in diplomatic history". The Labour MP Paul Flynn went further by comparing Britain to "a supplicant fawning spaniel that licks the hand that beats it", which was the kind of thing Mao's Red Guards used to chant during the Cultural Revolution. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4594729.ece