Beijing on my mind

Over at Open House Adrian Hamilton is not happy about the Beeb's dcision to devote this year's Reith Lectures to China

Is there no end to the kow-towing to China these days? Well not in the BBC. The decision to devote its sixtieth anniversary Reith Lectures to the subject, and to place them in the hands of a historian (Jonathan Spence) is typical of the way the British establishment (and indeed the establishments of the US and most of Europe) is bending its knee to the coming power

he says

Well I'm sorry but I don;t agree.The more we get to know and understand about China,the more power that we have to change things.