A draft-era idea had China objecting to Subsidized Time as a co-opting of its lunar calendar, with the possibility of war…

This is planned-but-unwritten material: it appears in outline or margin notes but was never drafted as a scene.

In the published book. This material does not appear in the published book.

Evidence. The sources are in tension here. Our own transcript of the Lopate interview does not contain this remark. Either the transcript is partial or Debraski misattributes the interview. Documented by Paul Debraski's survey of the draft record, attributing it to Wallace in the Lopate radio interview.