David Cameron’s appointment to investment fund ‘part engineered by China’

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David Cameron’s appointment as vice chair of the £1bn China-UK investment fund and Sir Danny Alexander’s appointment as vice president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank were in part engineered by the Chinese state, parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC) found. Their appointment was to lend credibility to Chinese investment as well as the broader Chinese brand, according to confidential evidence given to the intelligence watchdog. Both Cameron as prime minister and Alexander as Treasury chief secretary were at the heart of the plan to usher in a golden age in Anglo-Chinese relations, the committee said. That decision was chastised...