Being a people who understand getting down a good bet, Quillnews has a hunch that China's bettors who like to test their juju are getting poor odds from the Shanghai book on China's political stability long term. Oh, sure; there's hope and many (particularly eager westerners who are optimists by nature and who can't not bet on the future) are working with a willing heart toward the day when China -- eventually -- will be a free society. The people of China and their awesome culture will go on. But, the government? The iron grip of the Communist Party's rule on those people...hey! Get real. Tyranny is bad. Communism is not only immoral, it doesn't work. The costs political tryannies place on development, production, distribution, and marketing of goods and services are too high and can not stand the overwhelming (and destabilizing) competitive advantages enjoyed by free people in free markets. As China's political tyranny pushes its people's market power out into the world, there has to be reckonings at the borders where tyranny and freedom meet. There always is. The people on both sides know what they know and seek to adjust or redress - sending destabilizing currents through both. Get set...
Quillnews to today's grad students: In preparing to understand the geo-political struggle that will occupy your adulthood (along with free people's war on jihadists), there is plenty to read at the graduate level for those of you who enjoy learned seminars - two excellent starting spots are recent essays by Mark Steyn and VDH, and a cautionary speech by Rumsfeld at IISS in Singapore, the news reports from WSJ, NBC and commentary by Bill Rice at DEL. The Atlantic's Robert Kaplan is all over this. (TC) To the bettors among you, if you itch to lay down a bet, the odds on India (and Australia and Japan) look good. (WOC, Aus, DEL, QN, QN2, QN3) It's early in the game. Be patient and stay tuned...
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