NEW HAVEN China is generating a lot of confusion nowadays, both at home, where senior officials now tout the economy s new normal, and abroad, exemplified by America s embrace of Cold War style tactics to contain China s rise. On both counts, the disconnects are striking, adding a new dimension of risk to the impact of the China factor on a fragile world.

New cricketing heroes have emerged from small towns, none more popular than India s swashbuckling captain, M.S. Dhoni, the son of a peon in the dusty town of Ranchi, who now commands millions in endorsement fees to tout products that his family could never have aspired to own. Cricket, once the sport of the British upper classes, is in India a great leveler.

The Committee holds tout courte, see paragraph 7.1 supra, that Although a person acquitted at first instance may be convicted on appeal by the higher court, this circumstance alone cannot impair the defendant's right to review of his conviction and sentence by a yet higher court. This is new ground for the Committee, and its rule, widely applied, could disrupt the court systems of many civil law countries.