Pomfret's blog on China

Image by Kaustav Bhattacharya via FlickrThere is a new kid at the China blogging block, or in fact, an old kid. Foreign Washington Post Beijing Bureau chief John Pomfret has entered the digital world.( h/t The China Game) . His take on the ongoing protests against the Beijing Olympics:

So is this going to weaken China’s government? On the contrary. The more pressure the Chinese get from foreigners and barbarians – which are actually synonymous in ancient Chinese – the stronger the system becomes. Indeed, China’s system feeds off this kind of adversity. The Communist regime has a peculiar genius for turning these types of threats into opportunities.