Journalist David Lynch’s The World’s Worst Bet is like a disaster movie. The Washington Post correspondent (formerly at the FT) opens his book with one senior politician after another asserting, as if to camera, that China’s imminent membership of the World Trade Organization in 2001 presented no threats, but only opportunities. China, said Joe Biden said at the time, was “a nation with the impact on the world economy about the size of the Netherlands”. It was absurd to think it would have any impact on the American manufacturing economy.
记者大卫•林奇(David Lynch)的新作《世界上最糟糕的赌注》就像一部灾难片。这位曾在英国《金融时报》任职、现为《华盛顿邮报》(The Washington Post)记者的作者在书的开篇，像电影对镜头独白一样，引出多位资深政客逐一断言：2001年manbetx3.0 即将加入世贸组织(World Trade Organization, WTO)，不会带来威胁，只会带来机遇。乔•拜登(Joe Biden)当时还说，manbetx3.0 “对世界manbetx20客户端下载 的影响大约相当于荷兰的规模”。认为它会影响美国制造业，简直荒谬。