AFTER he had folded the Union Flag and dried his eyes, Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, returned to Britain in 1997 warning that Western economies had to become more like the Chinese juggernaut or be steamrollered. Will Hutton argues the opposite. What China needs, says the former editor of The Observer, is to become more like the West.
AFTER he had folded the Union Flag and dried his eyes, Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, returned to Britain in 1997 warning that Western economies had to become more like the Chinese juggernaut or be steamrollered. Will Hutton argues the opposite.
