A Stick in the Chinese Eye
A stick in someone else’s eye, but a stick nonetheless. Not only that, but the same old tiresome victim, those yellow hordes a half a world away, the Chinese. Shades of middle twentieth-century isolationism and communist hysteria. Until this country of ours undertakes some necessary revision and brings home some recoverable jobs, all that’s left is China-baiting.
This week it’s the House subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and, so no one of Asian descent feels left out, the subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. Lest we nod off, Rep. Christopher Smith of New Jersey is the chairman of these nattering nabobs of someone else’s business. Chris hasn’t actually been to China, but he's eaten Chinese take-out and was all twittery and ready to go, when Abramoff Airlines stopped flying.
Not to be discouraged, Smith breathlessly announced that for the first time, a hearing in the House of Representatives will be blogged live from Capitol Hill. Thus China will ma…