Everyone Is Entitled To His Own Opinion,

I Have No Doubt That There Will Continue To Be Bumps, Some Serious Crises Indeed In Our Relationship With China.... Neither Membership In The Wto Nor Normalized Trade Relations With The United States Will Magically Impose The Rule Of Law On China Or Institute Deep-seeded Respect For Human Rights. But It Certainly Has Potential To Advance Those Purposes.

It Has Proved Politically Wiser To Set Goals Than To Start Programs.

So Many Of The New Nations Which Were Established As Democracies After The Second World War, During The Decolonizing Process, Have Now Changed Their System To State-socialism. Small Elites Run Them, And They Aren't Sharing Societies. They Aren't Even Socialist. The Power Of The State Has Been Merged With Business Property And You Have The Greatest Concentration Of Power That's Possible.

Citizen Participation Is A Device Whereby Public Officials Induce Nonpublic Individuals To Act In A Way The Officials Desire.

The Issue Of Race Could Benefit From A Period Of Benign Neglect.