Indeed, like Argentina, Italy faces a growing competitiveness loss given an increasingly overvalued currency and the risk of falling exports and growing current account deficit.
But Baroness Linklater of Butterstone said the new law was "unnecessary" and "inappropriate" because knife crime was falling, suggesting the current sentencing framework was working "appropriately".
Will may be one of America's great columnists, but he--like his equally distinguished liberal counterpart Thomas Friedman--may be falling prey to a current fashion for sinophilia.