Karma for the Beijing Leadership

Three years ago, Beijing’s leadership decided to teach Australia a lesson—now it has come back to bite them.
Karma for the Beijing Leadership
People taste red wine from Australia at the Food and Agricultural Products exhibition in Shanghai on Nov. 5, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images
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Karma often tastes bitter in the mouth of the recipient but always warms the onlooker’s heart. It’s the stuff of countless short stories, movies, and television plots. A selfish person—a bully, a thief, a brute—takes unfair advantage of another only to discover at some later date when he or she needs help that people remember and repay past bad behavior in kind and in full.

Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."
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