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Osborne’s New Model of Minor Power Supplications

British chancellor George Osborne has toured China this week, seeking investment and pledging £10 million in public funds to promote football and British arts there. In an op-ed at The Guardian last weekend, he summed up his vision for a “golden relationship”: […] There are those who say we should fear China’s rise – that we should somehow guard ourselves against it. But we reject such thinking, which would simply leave the UK slipping behind. Instead, we should