Who knows? Incredible things have happened before?

    The Chinese of China and those in its diaspora have lived the worry for a very very very long time, that history might repeat itself.

    What history?

    The history that the re-incarnations of David Niven, Charleston Heston and Ava Gardner would do another 55 days in peking. 

    In so doing they would rape and pillage China again including the new the summer palace of Beijing, its National Museum.

    And they would give a new imprimatur to some descendant of the Sassoon family the right to sell not just opium as it was then but also heroin, crack, cocaine, marijuana, amphetamine, ectasy everywhere in china right down to the smallest village.

 

    Now i send you the good news that such a possibility is near zero because of this:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2013-07/27/c_132579242.htm

 

    However, as some people would say - who knows?

    The U.S. could decide to send in the 7th fleet with its marines with the Japanese and Israeli Defense Forces, the Saudi, Philippines and Taiwanese army and whack China into submission again.