Caught this GOOD Magazine feature by Thomas P.M. Barnett via China Law Blog and felt violently compelled to share this with as many people as possible. Sure, it doesn’t cover everything, but it should be a required reading for a basic foundation of non-idiocy for everyone (especially Americans) when it comes to understanding the relevance and importance of China.
Put down your rifle (no offense, Mr. Heston), pick out another cold one, and get your read on:
10. Because Nixon went to China and your world was born.
2. Because China will not be our biggest future enemy but our most important ally.
I’m particularly amused that the list ends with something that could be construed as a point of hope.
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Richard @ The Peking Duck, one of my long-time RSS subscriptions, recently linked to a New York Times’ piece titled “The End of the Financial World as...
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CNR’s Weekly Review highlights some of the most interesting and can’t miss blog posts from the English China blogosphere. This week: May 31-June 6, 2009.
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Much to the detriment of my productivity, I spend an unwholesome amount of time online verbally sparring with individuals who take extremist political positions...
NYT Reminds Us Westerners Not Much Better Than Chinese 
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Utter Idiots and Why the United States Will Not Boycott the Beijing Olympics 
