L56-二笔---速译提分训练课下练习：英译汉2.docVIP

They argue, reasonably enough, that China was going to launch the AIIB anyway; better to be on the inside influencing its governance towards international standards than hand-wringing helplessly on the outside. That, however, overlooks the craven desperation with which Britain has sought to ingratiate itself with China over the past few months, since David Cameron, its prime minister, visited the country in December 2013. That was a tour of atonement, to make up for the offence Mr. Cameron had given China by meeting the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the previous year. He was