In regard to Mark Steyn's America Alone, I said several days ago that the only truly new argument I had run across in the book pertained to China. He argued that China was not the threat that many imagined them to be because demographics demonstrated that they would grow old before they grew rich. Howard French of the New York Times agrees with him: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/world/asia/22china.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin. Lawrence