China and the Next American Century
China and the Next American Century
Let's hope this Op-Ed by Bret Stephens isn't just whistling past the graveyard! It's one thing to recognize a market; it's another to be able to competitively tap it.
Bret opines:
"Our time" is supposed to be one of China's unstoppable rise and America's inevitable decline. Don't believe it. History is littered with the wreckage of regimes that thought they could create "consensus" by suffocating dissent and steal the intellectual innovation they could not generate on their own. China's bid to do just that merely compounds political error with historical ignorance.
Read the whole thing:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703886904576031332184760212.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond
Posted by khiggins at December 21, 2010 11:35 AM