So at the very moment that everyone in Washington is running around flapping their arms and Johnny McPalin is continuing to campaign while suspending his campaign, here’s the news out of China:

China on Thursday successfully launched a three-man crew into space where one of them will make the country’s first spacewalk, the country’s most challenging space mission since first launching a person into space in 2003.

And in case you didn’t know it, NASA turns 50 this week.  And it sure seems to be suffering a bad case of schlerosis:

NASA is delaying next month’s shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope because of problems stemming from Hurricane Ike and replacement parts for the observatory.

China is designing a sports car while the United States is desperately trying to keep its ancient Studebaker from falling apart.

Would the last person still believing in the continued dominance of American power please turn out the lights?

This is China’s century now.

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