Every year on August 6th I recall running into my childhood home and announcing, “America just dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. What’s an atomic bomb?”

Ojld guys always remember that on that date in 1945 the end of World War II became certain. That war, arguably the worst in the history of mankind, looms large in the minds of old guys. They wonder whether a different America might have prevented it. They glory on how well America fought it and how brilliantly America’s leaders remade the world after it was over.

All of the above is by way of introducing today’s mailing of Evan Osnos’s new essay about China in the latest issue of The New Yorker. As David Remnick introduces it:

“… Evan recently returned to Beijing to get a sense of how the central economic and strategic drama of the twenty-first century, the rivalry between the U.S. and China, has evolved. His new piece … is as unsettling as it is astonishing.”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X9sp9JpzKf_n1nsh2z2pUquI9tGFesZR/view?usp=drivesdk