Not quite OT at all, and then, some other OT:
Lest it be forgotten, with all deference to those who sincerely believe that subjects Chinese and peripherally beyond are OT and to be banished, the following points:
1. US Commerce deputy Daley believes that political go-ahead (and necessary cover for Unicom) is linked to WTO membership, the seamless course to which has been thrown off course by Slick (remember Zhu's visit) and Slick's bombs; and
2. Beyond our very narrow preoccupations with the Q (as momentous as they are to each of us, according to our needs), CDMA, Q, MOT the rest of them are tiny, but hightly interesting pawns in a geo-political game (but dead serious) of massive implications, and I would say that the US has not played its pieces too cleverly (or too cleverly by half) to encourage and strengthen the irrefutable stirrings of an opening of historic proportions in the CP/national curtain lowered in 1949, and for centuries priot to that.
Regards. Steven
Also, let it not be said that this thread is not doing its best to compensate the economic collossus, the all powerful New Zealand, for its losses in the lamb export wars. Bought half a case of Brancott Estate Sauvignon Blanc, produced and bottled by Montana Wines Ltd. Marlborough, NZ. Quite delicious. |
