So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.

• 而在21世纪，无论通过怎么样的方式，中国以及其邻居将决定亚洲重新领导各项人类活动对后工业化的世界，包括美国，意味着什么。