The Chinese and the Prussia Story

The chinese are acutely aware that what the failure of germany policy, particuarly after the dismissal of bismarck in the 18 intin the 18 eighties, was too much aggressiveness. And they are like china in the sense that they're like the middle power surrounded by a bunch of other powers,. The paradox there is, you want to be stronger, but if you build up too much, youget you freak everybody out. I think the chinese leadership has decided wrongly,  that the americans have clay feet. After the financial crisis, after the middleasta bacls, the political consternation of recent years, they've decided