Successful Societies-those Which Progress Economically And Politically

Environmental Disaster Is The Gravest Threat To China's Continued Development. That's According To Me, But It Is Not Some Wacko View.

Everyone In The Chinese Economic World Knows That The Country Is Not Going To Move Out Of Cheap-workhouse Status, Toward The Realm Of 'real' Rich-country Corporate Power And Prosperity, Unless (among Other Changes) It Begins Removing These Price Distortions.

I Am Explicitly Not Opening The Giant Can Of Worms That Is The Ongoing Current Discussion Of Patent, Copyright, And Trademark Reform.

For The Record, I Am Sticking With My Claim That The Simultaneous Degradation Of Air Quality, Water Quality, Water Supply, Food Safety, Soil Quality, And Other Environment-related Variables Is The Main Challenge To China's Continued Development.

A Rigid America Is Also Weak And Vulnerable, Because It Sacrifices Its Unique Strength: The Energy Of People Who Think They Can Always Make Something New Of Their Lives.