20.7.05
Pigs Fly, Cats Bark,
and Tom Friedman writes a column that makes a lot of sense:
The real issue is that we have slipped into a symbiotic relationship with another major power that is neither a free market nor a democracy. We have both grown dependent on that relationship - the U.S. for cheap goods and cheap mortgages, and China for high employment and regime stability. We now have to adjust the bargain at the heart of that relationship.