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Digby's Diary

Sir Digby Jones has related his own personal account of the talks between EU Commissioner Peter Mandleson and his Chinese counterpart, held in Beijing at the height of the textiles trade dispute:

"One of them was an unaccountable, unelected politician from a sprawling bureaucracy who was promoting protectionism," says the Confederation of British Industry Director. "And the other was Chinese."

Hat-tip ASI