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zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis and this week I talked to

Stephen Bush George Eaton about the Chinese Premier's visit, the Tax Credit Rao and

Corbyn's new spin chief. Then Tom Gatti talks to William Boyd about John McCary's new novel.

It's been a big week in British politics as we have rolled out the reddest of red carpets for the Chinese Premier.

But there has also been trouble behind the scenes with a vote on tax credits and a maiden speech in the House by a Tory MP in which she took on the government's policy. I'm joined by George Easton

our political editor and Stephen Bush editor of the Stagers. George first, well you've

written your column on China this week and you've made this theme about the idea that we're just as we kind of

currently talk about kind of Europhiles and Eurosceptics then we're going to

have the same discussion about about China in the future. Why is that? What's changed?

I think this is the first British government that has had an

overarching sort of coherently gay strategies towards China and is very much a

positive one. George Osborne and David Cameron have explicitly said they want

Britain to be China's best partner in the West, they want Britain to be China's best partner in the West,

they want Britain to be one of the most open economies to Chinese investment.

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