Trade before human rights for David Cameron in China?
David Cameron’s trip to China is a trade delegation first and last – and the Prime Minister will not want to be seen as lecturing the country on its human rights record, writes Gary Gibbon.
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David Cameron’s trip to China is a trade delegation first and last – and the Prime Minister will not want to be seen as lecturing the country on its human rights record, writes Gary Gibbon.
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By the time you are reading this I hope to be supping on mozzarella di bufala in a medieval Italian hilltop town full of churches stuffed with paintings by Renaissance masters. The reality will probably be that I shall be going through umpteen security scanners along with some 3000 other journalists queuing for the G8…