Fareed Zakaria is a superb writer and insightful political pundit, but this article has a slightly wanton feel to it. Perhaps the editor got carried away here - the article doesn’t quite live up to the drama of the headline

” China has grown for three decades at a pace no other country has ever sustained. But 2006 may be the year when we begin to see problems.”

We hear that “China’s problems will stem not from failure but success” and that “2006 might be the year that we begin to witness China’s problems, admittedly ones any developing country would kill for.”

Say, what?

Nor is it news that growth is ‘lopsided‘. Surely in anything resembling an emerging free market that is inevitable.

I can’t help getting the feeling that Fareed wanted to write something a propos, following the trouble in Southern China last week, but without uncovering and new facts or insights on which to base his story.

Ken Carroll 凯恩