Via the Adam Smith Institute, comes this remark from Sir Digby Jones, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry, eye-witness to the talks between EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandleson and his Chinese counterpart, held in Beijing at the height of the nonsenical ‘Bra Wars’ garment quotas dispute:
“One of them was an unaccountable, unelected politician from a sprawling bureaucracy who was promoting protectionism. And the other was Chinese.”