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Cameron doesn't really think things through, does he, especially on the world stage.
Despite the HS2 enabling bill there is still no guarantee that this white elephant will actually be built (We can only hope).
So off he trots with, ahem, business leaders to China and tells the Chinese that they might somehow take part in the project. So he has made us a hostage to fortune if the project is dumped as being pointless and too expensive. One can only imagine the conversation the following day:
"Er, hi, erm you know that railway deal we talked about, it's, well, er, it's not quite going ahead Mr. erm, Mr. Leqiang. Oh that nuclear power plant, it's, it's, well there's a problem with that too."
Expect Cameron's position from now on to be one where critics of HS2 will be told that to scrap the idea would put in peril trade between the UK and China.
Whoever his advisors are deserve the sack. An absolutely useless negotiating position. Even Miliband could have done a better job and that's saying something.
So when Cameron was quoted as saying "So, I think you can see that Britain is probably the most - one of the most open countries in the world in terms of welcoming Chinese investment."
what he really meant was,
"So, I think you can see that Britain is probably the most - one of the most open countries in the world giving up on encouraging our entrepreneurship and allowing foreign companies to run everything vital to our economy".