A nice bit of reporting by David Brooks in the New York Times . Brooks attended one of those intelligentsia meetings (this one was the Aspen Ideas Festival — I wonder if Tom Friedman was there?) where China policy was discussed. Luckily for the reality-based community, Jim Fallows was there providing counterpoint to Niall Ferguson, who was apparently representing the batshit neocon community. Now, I haven’t liked Ferguson for some time now, notably because of his neo-imperialistic ideas p