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There are no "parties," only individuals who are capable of thinking for him/herself. US trade deficit is the result of government budget deficit: all the money printed for the bureacrats, government contractors and entitlement recipients creates an inbalance between money vs. goods/services; the go...

I doubt China can think, any more than the US can think. Nation-states are artificial mental concepts. They do not eat, drink, or think. Individuals are capable of thinking. Chinese officials are capable of thinking. They are sending their offsprings to the US, and sending their ill-gotten loot from...

Fred, I agree with you that living standard has improved over the last 7000 years (since the days when "home" was a hole in the ground). However, compared to that time scale, the generation-to-generation time scale is like saying that because the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 10 to 8000 in ...

John, How can the "land reform" that took place in China be a Reovery Era event when it was a civil war on the ground that fought village to village, family to family, and killed far more people in the process than the previous "Civil War" which had been more or less mass defection of troops that we...

John, There might be two different time lines at work. Taiwan clearly entered a recovery period after 1949 (recovery from a continuous war period of WWII 1938-45, Chinese Civil War 1946-49, and the initial KMT suppression of Taiwanese in 1947-48, not just the Chinese Civil War against the communists...

TGB, IMHO, leadership shifts to the younger generations as a Crisis War progresses, simply because the physical attrition during such a war. Crisis Wars for continent-sized enties seem to last a long time. e.g. French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars engulfing all of Europe lasted 26 years, during the...

John, If we are to count the Cambodian Killing Field as the most recent sufficiently significant "Crisis War" experience that Thais had, the last "Crisis War" in China did not end in 1949. The Mao nightmare didn't end until the late 1960's and early 70's, with the result that anyone 35 or older toda...