This book describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events. It draws extensively on the writer experiences as an undergraduate, a political researcher, a Cabinet Minister and Party Chairman, a Governor of Hong Kong and a European Commissioner. Contents: 1. Now we are sixty 2. Not tuppence for the re…
East and West focuses on Chris Patten's key disputes with China over questions of democratic election, civil liberties, and Hong Kong's independence; but, more importantly, it examines the larger picture of the Asian value system. Can you have economic change without political change? Can democratic rule guarantee fair play between economic competitors? There can be no doubt that Asia is a p…
What Next? tackles the big questions about our global condition and our collective future with a verve and authority no other current commentator or political figure, on either side of the Atlantic or the Channel, could match. Energy, food, water, international crime, weapons proliferation, drug trafficking, climate change, epidemic disease, migration - the challenges facing our world are thems…