Meanwhile on Chinese TV, they're explaining why America's economics Nobel Prizes don't add up to anything.
Zhang Weiwei: every country that modernized needed a first pot of gold -- the starting capital that gets an economy growing.
"The West got theirs through violence, war, the slave trade. Ruthless plunder, ruthless slaughter."
China earned its own -- "through its own effort and sacrifice."
US-trained economist Wen Yi adds the punchline: Western models literally can't explain where that starting capital comes from. "Economics assumes it's given -- by God."
Which is why copying the Western model was never on offer for the Global South:
"Tell developing nations to copy you -- no pot of gold!"
Do not be afraid to sow without immediately seeing the fruits. The sowing belongs to you; the growth belongs to God. No gesture carried out in the name of Christ is useless.
Un antillais nous avait appris à mon pote et moi la technique de comment bien approcher une meuf en boîte.
C’était au Corcoran’s à l’époque en face du Pachamama.
J’ai jamais su son nom, mais je le place au même rang que mon père qui m’a appris le vélo.