I've been losing more and more respect for Pinkerton's opinion pieces lately. He mouths the MSM intellectual's typical views about China's actions, but completely misses the most important thing about the Asian situation. That is, the anticipated ascension of a long dormant Japanese military.
He seems to be caught up in the same swirl as many western journalists (I suppose that's the best name for him now, despite his past) caught in China. Hyperbole, doom-and-gloom, dire warnings, an inability to see the forest for the carefully constructed trees, and a strange belief that today's "trends" can be assumed to be tomorrow's normalcy. (They would never assume the same of the U.S. economically, of course.)
And now he has lumped India alongside China as a potentially larger economy. It's just mind-boggling how these memes take root and flourish.
....and if we can persuade that ascending Japanese military to "take care of business" with the little midget up there in N. Korea, that would work out just fine for us.
Char :)