If this is denied to them, many will decide to leave. Let's seek brighter prospects elsewhere. U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick thinks he has found them in Africa. Writing on the Op-Ed pages of the May 23rd Wall Street Journal , Mr. Zoellick rhapsodizes about the benefits brought to that continent by the African Growth and Opportunity Act, passed by the U.S. Congress a year ago. Africa can come to the U.S. duty free.
Economic liberty infuses the spirit of political liberty.
This is one of the core beliefs of our age. Correlation is not causation. Well, I have just been reading a book titled The Coming Collapse of China by one Gordon Chang, an American of Chinese ancestry who has been living and working in China for 20 years. I've been reading it for review, the book doesn't come out till August, so I'm not supposed to give anything away, but suffice it to say that China's prospects do not look bright. Mr. Chang thinks the Chinese Communist Party is on the skids, but he does not have much to say about what will come after.