Two thoughtful articles in Saturday and Monday’s Wall Street Journal that are well worth the read to help get you ready for our trip:

In China’s Orbit:  After 500 Years of Western Predominance the World is Tilting Back to the East (I have not yet read the noted paper by Li, but if it’s accurate, it would indeed be a major contribution to the literature in that China imploding and falling behind the West would be pushed back by 300 years.)

Parting Words:  Lawrence Summers Points to the Most Important Issue of our Time:  China

And the money quote from the Summer’s article:

“I think that when somebody writes the history of our time 50 or 100 years from now, it is unlikely to be about the great recession of 2008. It is unlikely to be about the fiscal problem that America confronted in the second decade of the 21st century.  It will be about how the world adjusted to the movement of the theater of history toward China.”

Why do you think Summers would say this?   Does he know something more (or less) about the world, China and the West than you and I do?   Who is this guy and what are his credentials?  What is his life experience?  Is he a guy whose advice should be heeded or ridiculed?

Do you agree or disagree with him, and most importantly, why?