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Jonah Goldberg

Downplaying talk of China's rise, in the Los Angeles Times:

"China has 700 [million] very poor people. By 2050, it will have 400 million very old people ... The country is shot through with corruption, bogus accounting practices that make subprime mortgage bundles look like gold bullion, and a political elite that remains terrified of democracy. A confident government doesn't banish its Nobel Peace Prize winners."

--1/18/11

Sources: CNN; Wall Street Journal; ABC; Daily Mail; AP; BBC; Allure

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