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David Cameron and the great sell-out Why the humiliation of the former prime minister is a fitting end to an era of politics that turned the state into a business.    Not so long ago, David Cameron and George Osborne were being described in Beijing as “the two posh boys”. In the glorious era of Anglo-Chinese harmony during the coalition government that has almost slipped from memory, Britain’s leaders were regarded with something not far from open contempt. Regime-friendly intellectuals saw them as instruments of Chinese policy whose usefulness was a function of their naivety. When I visited Beijing during the Cameron ascendancy, it was hard to find anyone there who took him seriously. Yet, in some ways, the Chinese elite was also naive. In the run-up to the Brexit referendum, they never doubted that it would reaffirm Britain’s part in what, from a Chinese perspective, seemed like an inexorable process of European unification. The prospect of a successful democrati

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