[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

To dismiss Lam as an idiot is to abandon one's credibility regarding China, at any rate.

[Poohbah]

Well, Lam may have an insight into what China's leaders *want* to do.

The problem is that China is a long ways away from actually being able to do it, and their economy looks suspiciously like Enron's balance sheet writ out on a nation-state scale.

As we said when I was a (much younger than I am now :o) jarhead, "want into one hand, s**t into the other, and tell me which one fills up first."