From Bad To Worse. . .
(From Bad To Worse. . ._) Who is having a worse week ? Chinese Premier Xi Kinping ? Or President Joe Biden ? The Chinese leader, expanding on what had been discussed yesterday, is dealing with anti-covid dis-content among the population. The China Virus has now turned on those who "developed" it and the Chinese Communist Party is insisting on the same draconian closures that were not effective in this country. Xi is handicapped by Chinese history and could name a few emperors, if not whole dynasties, How many thousands of peasants were sacrificed in building the Great Wall ? The Tomb of the First Emperor ? The Grand Canal ? While the Peoples' Republic has centralized authority, the "patience of the peasant class is not limitless. As there are 1.5 billion of them and only a few dozen Communist Party members, well, do the math. If there is no face-saving path for Premier Xi, then his reactions to continued dissent will prove more extreme. Things are hardly better for ...