China may come to rue the wanton eagerness with which it has embraced industrialization.

I still shake my head in wonder that she could embrace the abandoned hope of liberation when almost no one else not even Gorbachev could even imagine it.

Given this alignment of forces, and the bloodshed that has already occurred in Manama s Pearl Square, the scenes from Cairo of protesters arm in arm with soldiers and hugging tank crews are unlikely to be replayed here.