Wed Nov 16, 2016

A lead article in today's WSJ describes how China is discovering the price of global power. Or as the Fish Rag put it during the Viet Nam War

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=the+fish+rag#id=0&vid=4fcc663a9e2273e2413d74fd8da4704c&action=click

Which is to say people die in war.

The article details a Chinese soldier with a UN Force in Africa. His vehicle was hit with an RPG and he died two hours later.

Ironically it may have been a Chinese made weapon, the result of the China export policy.

Years ago I had my cost managerial classes a Jim Rogers book Adventure Capitalist.  In either that book or the earlier Investment Biker, he observed that China was not likely Screen Shot 2016-11-16 at 6.09.01 AM

to start a war. His reasoning was the the one child policy meant that if a family lost their only child, it was wiped out, there would be no future generations. The reality of that is now hitting China, The soldier who died was a one child offspring who had already lost his Father.

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