The Chinese Century

It's their turn, after all. An they've been around a great deal longer than the US. Frum on the historical context:

European history extends a long way back: Cro-Magnons were painting caves 25,000 years ago, Celts were making good-looking swords and pots a thousand years before Christ, and the Parthenon is near as old as Confucius.

But here's the difference between Europe and China, and it takes considerable adjustment to absorb all the implications of this difference.

The history of Europe is...