[TalBlack]

“The thing is Red China needs us to keep buying what they make, if they nuke us, they lose a huge market. “

Is China neccessarily wedded to markets that are, or might China come up with a grand plan of markets to be? Junk the order of today, suffer some privations along the way, in order to have full power and authority in a new world setup. People are crazy and the old bipolar world kept many ambitions in check. The fall of the USSR is “old” news but the pace of History is slower and finer than the human attention span.

[Nowhere Man]

Is China neccessarily wedded to markets that are, or might China come up with a grand plan of markets to be? Junk the order of today, suffer some privations along the way, in order to have full power and authority in a new world setup. People are crazy and the old bipolar world kept many ambitions in check. The fall of the USSR is “old” news but the pace of History is slower and finer than the human attention span.

It seems like things were saner with the Cold War, at least you knew which side you were on, ours, theirs or neutral.