TUNKU VARADARAJAN: Reverse swing: Blatter and Beijing: Let us give thanks to the United States, and take comfort from the fact that it is the world’s judicial superpower. “It is customary to talk of American strength in military terms, and while that strength is on the wane — distressingly so, for those of us who want to keep China on a leash — it is still a match for the challenges and torments that beset the globe. But there is an aspect of American ‘policing’ that is frequently overlooked: its positive resort to the law, and to legal muscle.”