By MILTOS MANETAS I was in China recently. After traveling 5,000 kilometers in just a week by train and bus and taxi, I had a vision. I saw us locked in a triangle made by three chopsticks, all of them black — the first made from steel (the US), the second from wood (Europe), the third from plastic (China). The US used to be the new North; Europe, a great mix of North and South; and China, a “Far East.” But now, everything is turning to the Total North. There are a few safe places left. Outside the Total North, the Muslim world, is expanding in all directions, copying the worst of the West, suffocating the best of the East. Still, there is a land where we can escape from the Total North’s veracity, but also take some time to study how to deal with all that. The country is…