Their quest for mythic, messianic, transnational movements of liberation remains the same, as does the enemy America's imperial colossus. They are the product not of Western or Middle Eastern history, but the fusion of all histories, of globalization.

We are coming out of 50 years, most unusual years, of history in which we have had a totally mono polar world, in which every compass needle for or against has to be referenced by its position to Washington a world bestrode by a single colossus.

Beginning with Deng in the late 1970 s, scientists and engineers technocrats with the determination to convert a dysfunctional centrally planned economy into an investment and export led colossus framed and implemented a producer oriented development model. Today, the task at hand is very different to transform the technocratic framework of the producer model into the aspirational vision of a flourishing consumer society.