In Chinese Philosophy at European Universities, Professor Defoort criticizes the institutional place of Chinese and non-Western studies at European universities. In order to demonstrate the problem, she describes the situation at the KU Leuven Department of History and its Institute of Philosophy of which the author's proud to be a staff member. Regarding many of the important issues Defoort raises, he do not feel sufficiently competent to respond. Professor Defoort's general complaint is that there is too deep an institutional divide in Europe between area- and language-focused studies of the non-West on the one hand and the social sciences or other humanities on the other. To insist on the independence of philosophy as a conversation is not to say that hiring a non-Western expert or including mandatory courses on non-Western philosophy as Professor Defoort recommends would endanger that independence. Surely there is no lack of topics about which present-day philosophers do not very well know what to say.