...One thing the Europeans should realize is that, unlike the politically correct West, China is nearly impervious to the invocation of victim status and practically indifferent to the whole panoply of quasi-religious causes that are held so sacred in Europe. Talking about "justice", "global warming", "humanitarianism" and "economic rights" cuts no mustard over there. It's cash and carry. As is, where is. Or else it is, "do I know you?"
It will be somewhat entertaining to watch Brussels put on the customary show; dispatch their legions of special rapporteurs, ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary, who will gyrate, grovel and simultaneously unctuously demand things with an old-world hauteur, only to discover it doesn't work with representatives of an even older world. It's sad in a way and not a little pathetic. |