from the WaPo's SLATE mag: >In a curious thematic confluence, the NY [TIMES] runs a long piece on the United States' desire to see China play a larger role in setting the policies of the International Monetary Fund, while the [Wall Street JOURNAL] looks at our requests for their backing in efforts to revive a World Trade Organization deal intended to help the developing world. The common thread: We want China's help in sticking it to the Europeans.<
-- Jim Devine / "Self-exhaustion in war has killed more states than any foreign assailant." -- BH Liddell Hart.
