the russians targeting civilians as well as using certain weapons by which we understand he means cluster bombs, does that surprise you? do you think that s where we are heading with this, prosecuting him? ben: absolutely. we have seen the videos of cluster bombs. they are distinctive. the u.s. biden administration being more coy and haven t said they are committing war crimes but, yes, it is what s happening and it s putin modu opprandi. there s no surprise that he s using those tactics and, of course, he s cornered right now. he s not doing as well as he thought he would, the clean initial strike on the capital hasn t happened and he s lashing out and he will do so with everything that he s got and that s what we are seeing right now.
the average growth rate over the last ten years in china was 10.3%. 7% of that is not sustainable. that type of an economy can t operate that way and they have a debt issue. the leadership in china, i m extremely impressed with. because i m impressed with the leadership it s likely it will be well managed. it will be a hiccup and there will be a restructuring, but they make decisions. we are going into the 13th five-year plan. they have plans that they set out and they actually implement. we don t have plans. i think i m not trying to comment on the pros and cons of the american system. i am saying that the economics, they have less debt. they have a lot of potential because capital hasn t flowed to a lot of parts of their economy. it s been stuck with state-owned enterprises, local governments. as it flows to that other part and they innovate they have a lot of potential.
10.3%. 7% of that is not sustainable. that type of an economy can t operate that way, and they have a debt issue. the leadership in china i m extremely impressed with and because i m impressed with the leadership i think that it s likely that it will be well managed. there will be a hiccup and there will be a restructuring but they make decisions. we re going into the 13th 13th 59-year 5-year plan. they have plans they set out and they actually implement. we don t have plans. so i think that, you know i m not trying to comment on the pros and cons of the american system. i am saying that the economics, they have less debt. they have a lot of potential because capital hasn t flowed to a lot of parts of their economy. it s been stuck with state-owned enterprises enterprises, local governments. as it flows to other parts and they innovate i think they have a lot of potential.
we re back to the thing where u.s. doesn t want to look like it s putting its stamp on a revolution in the other country. what do you have on the rebel forces? they re not an organized group per se. this is not an army that s about to go marching on tripoli, though there is talk of some of these forces wanting to do so. they re not that organized, certainly in the east there s a lot of social organization going on. there have been, as i said, some reports that some advance on the capital hasn t happened yet. there would be serious doubts about their ability to take on gadhafi s forces militarily in the sense of a traditional sort of assault on the city or anything. it has to come from within probably. the trouble here is letting this thing drag on for too long. what are the ricsks? we re hearing people saying you ve got to ended bloodshed quickly. it seems the bloodshed has closed down. we ve heard about stalemates. it makes me want to say, hang on a second. it s only been a fe