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Britain’s colonial crimes come back to haunt trade negotiations

A couple of years ago I was walking through a small town in rural China when a young boy approached me nervously. I expected him to practice his English but instead he demanded to know why I had burnt down the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Drilled by his teachers on all aspects of the atrocity carried out by British and French troops in 1860, he bravely confronted the first person he saw who resembled those barbarian invaders.

Not long after that I was sitting at a dinner party in Delhi when a slightly inebriated gentleman demanded all British at the table acknowledge Winston Churchill as a far worse historical villain than Adolf Hitler.

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