As for the U.S., the China vote was not really a vote about China. It was a vote about how Americans feel about globalization. And it revealed a deeply fractured Democratic Party. Which is why a lot of Democrats are now groping for a new combination of tax policy, labor policy and social policy that could form a modern progressivism. Without articulating a new progressivism, the Democrats will either become indistinguishable from Republicans, especially under George W. Bush, or, if the unions have their way, the Democrats will become just kinder, gentler Buchananites.
Nobody gets to stay the same.