But with EU again on the brink of financial disaster, according to a recent World Bank report, and the U.S. job market still lackluster, calling out China on trade matters has become a favoritepolicy initiative for politicians.
In an extraordinarily thoughtful cover article in this week's edition of the New Republic, Bill Clinton and Al Gore's favorite magazine has eviscerated the theory that passes for a security policy in the Clinton-Gore Administration: the notion that "globalization" is making the world safe for American interests in the absence of a credible U.S. capability to defend them.