Marty,



China's situation is perfectly clear and obvious. They just had their gilded flapper Stutz Bearcat twenties and now their Black Friday of 1929.



The solution is equally clear and obvious. They need a new deal. That means first and foremost a Department of Agriculture, and d Department of the Interior, extension agents, science on the farm, all that Lazarzfeld stuff. Then add control of their several dust bowls, herd regulation so they don't have a cow-population war on the high plains like the Dinka-Nuer mess in the Sudans. Price supports on the Ikeda-rice, Kentucky-tobacco model. You know, total free enterprise through marketing boards, and crop acreage measured with millimetre cailipers. How many Chinese students are there at UC Davis right now? That's the question.



There's a wee bit of a tweak, but luckily that's obvious, too. We now know the scale needed for any new deal to work: the FDR New Deal plus WWII combined, that's your baseline.



They have an advantage over FDR here. They don't have to worry about Commie subversion, since they are the Commies. Any small details? Wey-yull, they'll probably have some rumbustious politician demanding that they build a yuuuge wall to keep the Vietnamese out.



Cheers,



-dlj.

