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A Cameron speech for the Chinese government and their state controlled media.

  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/02/david-cameron-my-visit-to-china My visit can begin a relationship to benefit China, Britain and the world  David Cameron visits China on a trade mission   A relationship to benefit all, except those millions of Chinese detained without trial, or the victims of torture or those subjected to continuing and varied abuses of human rights by an oppressive and evil dictatorship, or living a daily existence of abject poverty while the ruling classes enjoy lavish lifestyles and great opulence.  David Cameron, the arch hypocrite of British politics, playing to the ruling party and Chinese State controlled media.

Hypocrisy creates bizarre bedfellows

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/02/david-cameron-china-advocate-western-world David Cameron says that Britain will be China's strongest advocate in western world. Chinese president Xi Jinping. and Prime Minister David Cameron    Cameron, and therefore Britain, seem to be developing a very disturbing relationship with China and its population in excess of 1.35 billion people and its appalling record of human rights abuses. When it comes to political expediency and economic hypocrisy, this British government (and previous ones, particularly that of  Tony Blair) have few equals in roundly condemning the regimes of those where we have no economic, social or political interest and completely ignoring all criticisms, conventions and any activist organisation reports from within or outside offending countries. It seems that China has joined Saudi Arabia, Burma, Bahrain, Israeli occupied Palestine, Brazil and numerous other places around the world, on ...