Reaganomics Viewed from China
Peking, Oct. 18—There is advantage to be got from being far, far away when the President speaks on important domestic matters. I was handed a copy of Mr. Reagan’s address on the economy by the U.S. Embassy in Peking, and the four hundred Americans I traveled with during the ensuing 24 hours exhibited no curiosity concerning it: they are a hardy group of travelers, who, in a single day, were forced to meditate the infinite preparations made for the death of a Ming emperor six hundred years ago, and who accepted stoically the absolutely unheralded death of one of our number at the railroad station in Peking—who, after touring the Forbidden City, keeled over, and, at age 85, died most gracefully, and is at this moment, I devoutly hope, telling the Emperor Chang Ling that, really, all that fuss and bother was unnecessary.
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