I know I’m a couple weeks late on this, but I just read Fareed Zakaria’s Newsweek cover story on China. It’s great. China really is the next huge challenge on the international scene. Zakaria’s preps us for it with eye-popping statistics and a truly thoughtful overview. Not that I necessarily agree with him. Zakaria begins with a too quick dismissal of cultural factors, and some contrarian praise for China’s dictators. Later on, Zakaria smuggles culture back in, and (almost despite himself) shows us the messes even clever dictatorships make for themselves. But agree or disagree, this piece makes you think.