Promise and Prospect in the Chinas

The most anomalous of the world’s Communist regimes is, without a doubt, the Chinese People’s Republic.

I write this column pending the initialing in Peking, in the last few days of September, of a joint declaration that may, or may not, provide security for the five million or so inhabitants of Hong Kong, the unique “capitalist” enclave on the edge of the most populous country (and thus the most populous Communist country) in the world.