{"id":2198,"date":"2008-08-30T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2008-08-30T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T12:52:07","slug":"we-can-help-china-embrace-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"We Can Help China Embrace the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sensible <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121970878870671131.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries\">article<\/a>\u00a0by Tony Blair on WSJ&#8217;s Opinion page.\u00a0 He sees the rising of the East isn&#8217;t a threat but an enormous opportunity, resonating with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=1977\">Michael Bloomberg<\/a>&#8216;s.\u00a0 Interestingly, Blair compares China to USA and mentioned USA few times.\u00a0 A worldly man.\u00a0 I have always admire him more than any Brit PMs in the recent history.\u00a0 And his unwaving\u00a0pro US stance has certainly gained my approval when as tradition, the most European heads of state are on the other side of the\u00a0spectrum.\u00a0\u00a0 Bashing\u00a0Washington might get you elected (short term)\u00a0but it won&#8217;t fix your problem (long term).\u00a0 Bashing China would yield the same result. \u00a0The East is the timely opportunity, seize it before too late.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be left behind.<\/p>\n<p>I had somewhat\u00a0expected him to sell London&#8217;s 2012 summer game.\u00a0 He mentioned it too, at the end.<\/p>\n<p>McCain and Obama are too busy throwing dirt\u00a0at each other.\u00a0 They should spend more time\/money on their policy, how to change this country and how to deal with\u00a0the rising East to benefit this country.\u00a0 One comment posted that\u00a0&#8220;Blair was a more lucid spokesman for American interests than was our own president.&#8221;\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 China matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sensible article\u00a0by Tony Blair on WSJ&#8217;s Opinion page.\u00a0 He sees the rising of the East isn&#8217;t a threat but an enormous opportunity, resonating with Michael Bloomberg&#8216;s.\u00a0 Interestingly, Blair compares China to USA and mentioned USA few times.\u00a0 A worldly man.\u00a0 I have always admire him more than any Brit PMs in the recent history.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uncategorized","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}