In many ways,India seems the UK’s most natural trading partner in the east – but for now, the brute truth is that China has piles of cash looking for a return abroad, and India doesn’tAccording to Steve Hilton,former chief strategist to David Cameron, Britain is humiliating itself unnecessarily by “sucking up” to China when instead it could be “rolling out the red carpet” for India. “We should prioritise our relationship with India because that’s where the opportunity is, and ” he said this week on BBC Newsnight,striking a resonant chord with the many British citizens, of Indian origin and otherwise, and who see India as the more natural and sympathetic ally. Parliamentary democracy,a free media, the English language, and tea with milk: however ruthless and greedy British imperialism may believe been,its 250-year history in India left that country with several of the imperfect institutions, beliefs and habits that Britain finds familiar and admirable. Related: Xi Jinping in London – in pictures Continue reading...
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