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As the two leaders announced a package of trade deals worth £1.4 billion, the Chinese leader said he would always raise difficult questions about political freedom and the justice system alongside seeking closer economic ties. Meanwhile, Mr Wen said Britain and Beijing had to treat each other as "equals" on human rights.
“The Chinese people are appalled by the enthusiastic beatings meted out by your thuggish Metropolitan Police against unarmed protesters, and their deplorable mass detention tactics,” he told an inscrutably smiling Mr Cameron, “Not to mention your denial of legal redress for millions of ordinary British peasants, who are monitored constantly by the most comprehensive surveillance camera network in the world. And how can you have the bare-faced cheek to call yourselves civilised when your so-called free press routinely publishes government-sanctioned propaganda demonising the sick and the disabled, and your state denies them the treatment they need while your super-rich friends are cosseted in exclusive private hospitals?”
“No offence, mate,” he added, as Mr Cameron resolutely maintained a fixed grin for the world’s cameras.
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