The Scholar or the Journalist?
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 1:19PM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

POST: What’s Your China Fantasy?, By David M. Lampton, James Mann, May 2007

Good debate worth reading between Mann and Lampton.

You can guess which one I find sensible: duh! The long-time China scholar!

Actually, regional specialists should always be taken with a grain of salt, but Lampton is superlative.

Mann's a journalist, and you know what I think about looking to journalists for grand strategic advice ...

Thanks to Dan Collier for sending this.

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