Development-in-a-Barrel: No help from West required

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 8:09AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: "War in Sudan? Not Where the Oil Wealth Flows," by Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 24 October 2006

SysAdmin sans America, skipping the military intervention. This is China's version of the pre-canned bankruptcy, and it works because it facilitates the Chinese model: externally connect and internally repress as desired.

This is the true system balancing response to America's perceived misguided use of its Leviathan.

And yeah, it's pretty effective.

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