Edward Lotterman
Sometimes a sardonic quip for one era preserves wisdom for a later one.
During World War II, Bill Mauldin, a young soldier and editorial cartoonist, created and published popular cartoons about the war’s realities featuring GI characters Wille and Joe. In an early 1945 panel, one of Mauldin’s two scruffy soldiers reads newspaper reports of popular uprisings in Germany. The other sardonically advises him, “Sure … . Get down so they don’t hit ya wit’ a wild shot.”
That pretty much sums up what the rest of the world can do today about economic tumult in China. There are few, if any, actions that any other country can take to influence events there.
Yes, it is entirely possible, since China’s economy is the second largest in the world, that its problems may affect people and businesses in other countries, including the U.S. But all we can do is…
