Chinks of Hope

If there's one lesson to be learned from the recent disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is that somebody ought to do something about containing the short-sighted adventurism and military aggression of the Heathen Chinee. Fortunately, a new special relationship has been forged between Global Britain and its goodness-forcing chums in the colonies, resulting in a triple alliance to keep the peace in the Pacific. Despite the handy potential for a war against the yellow peril to keep the peace in the Conservative and Unionist Party, the US is employing a "dual-track strategy" which appears to consist of telling the Heathen Chinee that they'll have an easier time of it provided they do as they're told. Doubtless for reasons connected with the internal contradictions of the communist one-party state, the Heathen Chinee seem to be finding this approach excessively subtle and enigmatic.