up until now our dynamic has been a consumer driven economy in the U.S. while China has built it's economy on exports. As mentioned in the video the savings rate is abnormally high in China while in the U.S. it is abnormally low . The U.S. needs to reclaim manufacturing jobs (hopefully those jobs will be green) and begin to produce exports while China with its huge population needs to spur domestic consumption amongst it's growing middle class.  View

I doubt that Obama was trying to express a big brother kind of relationship with China. He is trying to display a respect for the country that the US will be able to benefit from. That's why so many nations despise US citizens: because of an arrogance and air of superiority. He is trying to show something more than arrogance: humility.  View

I think in small measure the inability of the President to influence the terms of the meeting in this way is an example of the leverage that China has over the U.S.  View

Its sad that China still insists on carrying out these censorship practices and China is definitely in a difficult position because of North Korea. I cant wait to see how this all plays out.  View

I love you forever，michael！I'm from china.  View

I think Brazil will be nice and white washed by the time the Olympics start. It'll be just like China, the government will go to the extreme to scrub up their poor little country to make it palatable to those scared, ignorant, global northerners. It's a good thing they have the Olympics to give them a reason to crack down on poor people, I mean superficially "rid their country of drugs" in time for the games.  View

If China got their act together, well, mostly, then I don't see why Rio won't and can't. I'd like to think that Brazilians, gangsta or not, are people who are generally very proud of their country and will make it work for the better.  View

China used chemicals to rain out clouds before the Olympics, I wonder if that is a similar process and if it had any negative effects.  View

The US will be financially pushed out as a superpower forcing us to conform to the majority in order to survive. Look at it like this. It's like we're all in a school yard playground and the universal trading card is the baseball card. We all (the countries in the school yard) trade back and forth amongst each other..and it's all good until china introduces the garbage pail kid trading card and it becomes the playground sensation. But the US hasn't gotten any and is still trying to trade baseball cards with everyone else, but no one wants Baseball cards anymore..and eventually, everyone stops playing with the US altogether.  View

Like the west, China also has a difficult past and it is trying very hard and serious of changing into a perfect society. So just sit back and watch for it to come.  View