Sunday, August 16, 2009

Y.E. Yang won the PGA championship today, the first man to defeat Tiger Woods in 15 tries when Tiger has led going into Sunday and, more importantly, the first Asian-born man to win a major golf championship. After China's successful bid to host the Olympics last year and the resounding success of the games themselves (minus the pollution biz), China's burgeoning world economy, Japan's monopoly on visual entertainment of many kinds (seriously, especially with younger people), are we seeing the milestones and harbingers of the Eastern rise and consequently the Western fall? Should we prepare for an invasion of Calilfornia in the 2060s? Should I learn Chinese?

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