Addendum II...

DAVID Brooks offers a truly sensible analysis of the current state of American politics. We centrists are hurting amid the current "war."

Addendum ...

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

A Chinese-American right-wing ideologue once again sees the coming demise of China (in 2001, he predicted China's imminent collapse) — while a former Wall Street insider sees the U.S. and Chinese economies now "joined at the hip," thus creating "Chimerica." (Finished reading Zachary Karabell's "Superfusion" last week.)

For 4,000 years, the Chinese have had a way of confounding those who profess to understand them.