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What the Hell kind of Pretzels will be needed to deal with China?
How will our monied elite talk about China?
Today's Times has an article about the fall from grace of a "Populist" that they describe later in the article as "neo-Maoist leftist" and describe his political opponents as the "liberal, market-oriented right".
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/world/asia/bo-xilais-ouster-exposes-chinese-fault-lines.html?ref=world
If our corporations haven't been dealing with an oligarchy all this time, they have been dealing with communists.. right? I think there's some pretty fancy baking going on.
