Chinese gamblers rarely drink when money is on the line, and the low, festive hum is broken now and then by the sound of someone pounding the table in delight or anguish, or exhorting the cards to obey.
If the government is understandably ducking the dilemma now, then when might it face it?
If so, then we take one course for now and when the crisis is over, we can revert back to self-reliance and shameless pursuit of selfish interest.
Then somebody is going to storm off the course when past suspicions are now confirmed.
Their argument is that this is infinitely preferable to sitting back now and then acting only when an electoral slide becomes evident.
Honduras is now in the fifth week of a constitutional crisis that was provoked when then-president Zelaya violated the Honduran constitution.
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Economic theory would now predict that taxi drivers make longer days when it is raining because then they make more money per hour.
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Their situation is made worse by the firing of thousands of their colleagues when the then president, now prime minister, Vladimir Putin scrapped the Forest Service in 2001.
They also suggest the economy has really not grown at all since the government took office in the summer of 2010. (In fact, today's numbers say the economy is now 0.3% smaller than it was then.) When the chancellor drew up his budget plans in May 2010, he was expecting the economy to grow by well over 4% in those 2 years.
Now, the general agreement is that when the interest rates are above 6% then Italy and Spain are in danger of going bust.
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But then again, now that all of this news is out, what is left to report when it announces Q4 numbers in a couple of weeks?
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