Brokeback Barry And The Rise Of China - Granite Grok

Brokeback Barry And The Rise Of China

From The Economist Cover Story Why is Rainbow Barry on Brokeback Mountain with a Chinese guy? Why is Barry carrying a gun, and is that Michelle back there?
From The Economist Cover Story
Why is Rainbow Barry on Brokeback Mountain with a Chinese guy?
Is he really carrying a gun, and is that Michelle back there?
A very provocative cover from The Economist this week is sure to turn a few heads in Washington at the suggestion of a strange kind of courtship.

The premise of The Economist’s story is that China is determine to rise in the world, and worries about Thucydides’ argument that it was the Spartans’ fear of the growing power of Athens that made war inevitable. Their insistence that China wants a “peaceful rise” is intended to calm such worries in America. However, China seems to be doing anything but calming America’s fears, and the Summit at Sunnylands Ranch (CA) this week is intended to smooth things over.

Economic rise, or Penetration Testing by Chinese Hackers?
Economic rise, or
Penetration Testing by Chinese Hackers?
I’m inclined to think that China’s meteoric economic rise is likely to stall in much the same way that the Japanese miracle (that was going to buy the world) crashed and burned 20 years ago. The pinko profs at The Economist, however, think that China’s rise is inevitable, and provided this helpful graphic, which is kind of suggestive in conjunction with the cover picture!  

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