[Enemy Of The State]

Comments?

[Feiny]

Highly doubtful, but anything is possible.

[tallhappy]

My comment is thanks for posting this.

I had been going to post a couple reviews of it, one by John Derbyshire in Washington Times.

I've seen the book at the store and hope to read it.

From what I've read of Baruma in the past, he is a good writer.

[Hammerhead]

The kings of the east will march west to justify cracking down on dissent and distract the Chinease populace during war.

[super175]

The CCP is struggling as we speak. The need for political reform is going to be a major headache for them and already is.

There could be a number of scenarios; a big old collapse is possible, but also so is a purge of the extreme elements of the party that resist change. After that a moderate government who has no guile for Taiwan can make peace and implement changes.

Within 10 yrs something is going to happen.

[BERZERKER]

"It's a kind of cosmic idea of politics that goes back centuries," Buruma said. Traditional Chinese rulers view themselves as 'people who mediate between heaven and Earth' and protect Chinese ethics, culture and politics from outside forces. That makes it easy for them to criticize 'dissidents as anti-Chinese.'"

I strongly believe this "change of heart" is all a ruse, concocted in the bowels of a society that puts a premium on the merger between Sun Tzu, Confucious, Tao Te Ching, and Communism.

Most valued in this type of culture is deceit of those who are not of your tribe. This is not an open society, either before it was Communist, or afterwards. The only way to deal with China, sadly, is to doubt and disbelieve everything they say, while always asking how they would benefit from your actions, and how you would lose.