For the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown congratulated the prime minister on at last crossing the Rubicon.

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But if Li is to be trusted, and the assessment of Barclays in Hong Kong accurate, then China is crossing its own Rubicon in a sort of mild insurrection against old-style Communism.

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