Stanley:

The outbreak of China analysis has reached even to the paleocon magazines.

The June ‘05 issue of Chronicles has a good piece by Bill Hawkins of the

US Business & Industry Council. The article is surprisingly belligerent for

a magazine of this sort. The closing paragraph, reproduced below, could

have come out of The Weekly Standard. (That remark just got me banned for

life from Chronicles Christmas parties.)

“Washington must concentrate on enlarging and sustaining its own

capabilities — industrial, technological, military, and financial — to

ensure that it stays generations ahead of China. This will take more effort

than was needed to defeat the Soviet Union, as Chinese capitalism is a much

more vigorous contender than was Russian communism. But safeguarding

America’s preeminence is just as imperative, regardless of the nature of the

threat.”