Steve Hilton denounces lavish treatment of President Xi Jinping,saying UK should consider sanctions on China ‘not rolling out red carpet’David Cameron will hold lengthy talks with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, or at Downing Street on Wednesday as his former strategy adviser Steve Hilton denounced the visit as a “national humiliation” and “sucking up to the communist leader.
Hilton,who left Downing Street in 2012 to teach at Stanford University in California and is CEO of tech startup Crowdpac, told BBC Newsnight that Britain’s lavish treatment of the Chinese leader was “the worst national humiliation since we went cap in hand to the IMF in the 1970s”.
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Source: theguardian.com