Asian billionaires embark on UK spending spree as pound nosedives

China and Hong Kong’s super-rich buy up everything from skyscrapers to private schoolsChina’s president, Xi Jinping, and David Cameron famously sealed their countries’ “golden era” friendship in 2015 over a pint of Greene King IPA at the Plough at Cadsden, a five-minute drive from the then prime minister’s Chequers country residence.They were clearly a nice couple of pints. A year later the Chinese investment firm SinoFortone bought the 16th-century pub for &p