We may not be so far removed. Given the precarious
state of our economy today, and America’s nearly existential reliance on our
trade with China in particular, one wonders: for all of our principled
condemnation of China’s government on political and human rights grounds, if it
were actually faced with a revolution from within — even one led by a coalition
calling for greater democracy — how likely is it that we, too, wouldn’t, in the
end, find ourselves hoping for that revolution to fail?