[Zhang Fei]

So where's the FReeper "The Ruskies are still commies brigade" on this thread? I that crickets I hear?

The problem with Russia isn't that it's Communist - it's that it's Russian, with the traditional Russian zeal for conquering *and* annexing its neighbors. That, at least, was Richard Pipes's contention. My contention is that our problem with China is similar, that it's with China's two thousand year tradition of empire-building, not Communism. Nobody worries about Yugoslavian- and Albanian-style Communism, which keep their hands to themselves.

[FormerLib]

I take it you are choosing to ignore the Albanian land grab in Kosovo, Macedonia, and southern Serbia then?