Let’s jump outside the U.S. and look at some major markets. We begin with China, by way of the FXI, which actually had its peak a full sixteen years ago (!!!!!!!!!) and has been trying to recapture its former glory ever since. Let’s face it, they are a communist dictatorship, and that simply doesn’t lend itself to creativity, innovation, and true prosperity. They have terrorized their billion inhabitants into compliance, on pain of death, but that is not a sustainable business model.