A quick message for the people who are predicting that China is going to rule the economic world, reducing the United States (and the rest of the world, including Japan) to lap-dog status: Oh, shut up! I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just saying that I don’t know what’s going to happen and you don’t either. I was around when Japan, Inc. was on a tear. I heard the gnashing of teeth when the Japanese bought a U.S. film studio and when they bought Rockefeller Center. I saw the cartoons about them buying the White House and carving a...