No Entangling Alliances, Please

I’ve been getting an epistolary pounding all summer for my June indiscretion in writing a column on the post-Mao turn in China’s policy (“Breaching the Great Wall,” June 23). Even my good friend and colleague, Bill Rusher, has scolded me in NR’s “The Open Question” (though I felt after reading him that “The Closed Question” might have been more apt).

The letters have been critical by a heavy majority. Most of them (and, of course, Bill Rusher’s anathema) have been well informed and thoughtful. Nearly all of them, though, shared a misunderstanding.

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I’ve been getting an epistolary pounding all summer for my June indiscretion in writing a column on the post-Mao turn in China’s policy (“Breaching the Great Wall,” June 23). Even my good friend and colleague, Bill Rusher, has scolded me in NR’s “The Open Question” (though I felt after reading him that “The Closed Question” might have been more apt).

The letters have been critical by a heavy majority. Most of them (and, of course, Bill Rusher’s anathema) have been well informed and thoughtful. Nearly all of them, though, shared a misunderstanding.