Thoughts – Timothy Garton Ash versus Jonathan Holslag

Thimoty Garton Ash today in De Standaard advises us to stop the binary thinking, the old Cold War thinking: are you for us or against us? Such as the binary thinking of the famous Flemish television professor Jonathan Holslag. 

Holslag does not get a good word in edgewise about China. Always portraying China as the enemy.

After Dirk Rimaux in yesterday's Doorbraak, Timothy Garton Ash is the second opinion maker this week to make the case for being willing to do business with China on economic and environmental issues, for example. 

Thimoty Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford.

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