Two distinguished politicians, one with a constituency of over one billion souls, the other a constituency of over one billion subjects, visited us this week. The pope’s souls, of course, are voluntary adherents to his cause, with the price of disobedience deferred until the disobedient enter another world; the subjects of the president of China find deviation punished more immediately.
-· One leader loathes the American system of market capitalism, the other wants to adopt some of its features to reform the sinking Chinese economy.
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