Ik ben “Not Quite the Diplomat” van Chris Patten aan het lezen. Voor wie de man niet kent : Brits conservatief politicus, pro-Europa, laatste Britse gouverneur van Hong Kong en oud-Eurocommissaris. Deze vond ik wel leuk : [i]The only present economic threat China poses is to low-paid uncompetitive jobs in the West. Why do so many Western politicians seek to preserve badly paid jobs for other people, rather than vote for the funds to retrain them for much better paid jobs ? No politician that I have ever met wants to work in a badly paid job himself.[/i] Ja hoor, de nuances ontbreken. En toch…