Ah, the temptations, if the not the complacencies, of the peignoir pundit! About six weeks ago, I took a punch at Fareed Zakaria for waxing too credulous over the might and power of a disciplined China, something folks as varied as Thomas Friedman and Barack Obama are wont to do. I suggested to Mr. Zakaria that China might prove to be a bit of a whited sepulchre, and so it has proved.
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