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President Xi was greeted by the President of Serbia Vucic at the Belgrade airport yesterday and by the Prime Minister Orban at the Budapest airport today. Some Europe countries still know how to conduct diplomacy.
Michael Pettis is the one that insisted China was the second Japan and would lose a few decades of growth. He predicated that China's GDP growth would average 2-3% throughout the 2010s.I wasn't familiar with this guy before but boy you are right about the autistic screeching:
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Yup. Some of the neocons are really unhinged. Fighting China within the first-island chain is likely an act of suicide.I think that's called "in range."