financial reforms: four years after lehman bro, page-22

benson, you do know what the little red book says:

When things get tough politically, pick a fight.

China's internal problems could be mirrored in belligerent regional aggression.

It's supposed to take the citizens' minds off domestic issues eg. hunger, oppression, unemployment, mistreatment, assorted massacres etc.

works too, for a while.

And Vietnam comes to mind. They've never been close 'friends' and have, on occasion, blown the hell out of each other.