Johnson took the 100 meters today over the 6'2" China whiz.
China's "success" is on the backs of its working class.
Howard Dean, Howard Dean, pick up the white courtesy phone.
I live in Vietnam part of each year. One day, I asked a taxi driver whether he had read one of the local commie run fishwrappers. He just chuckled and said that no one reads those things. The populace understands the hand they've been dealt, they all want out.
"Beijing's leadership does not accept that the cause is lost: unlike most outside analysts, they do not assume that the world's first economically viable form of Communism is merely an interim phase en route to a free - or even free-ish - society.
Mao, though he gets a better press than Hitler and Stalin, was the biggest mass murderer of all time, with a body count ten times' higher than the Nazis (as Jung Chang's new biography reminds us). The standard line of Sinologists is that, while still perfunct-orily genuflecting to his embalmed corpse in Tiananmen Square, his successors have moved on - just as, in Austin Powers, while Dr Evil is in suspended animation, his Number Two diversifies the consortium's core business away from evildoing and reorients it toward a portfolio of investments including a chain of premium coffee stores. But Maoists with stock options are still Maoists - especially when they owe their robust portfolios to a privileged position within the state apparatus. "
Deng Xiouping made clear that the international class struggle against the West's "Ruling Interests" continued to the hardliners when he explained why they were adopting capitalist camoflage: "Does it matter whether you call the cat black or white? So long as it catches mice."
This metahpor is not benign, and is in fact a rather bloody one that was immediately understood as such.