With some $800 billion in U.S. treasuries, China owns a good chunk of our economy. We'd better get used to dealing with the Chinese as equals.
November 2009 Archives
It turns out President Obama gave one, and only one interview to the Chinese press while he was in China, to the independent-minded Southern Weekend
The debate continues about whether or not Obama blew it in China by being too conciliatory and not holding Chinese leaders’ feet to the fire on human rights.
How did Barack Obama allow himself to get rolled by the Chinese in Beijing? Or did he? Let’s not forget that there are two games being played at once here.
Thousands of desperate petitioners come to Beijing with the idealistic assumption that the central government will help. But often, instead, they are grabbed off the streets, beaten, and thrown into undocumented prisons, sometimes in shabby guesthouses, sometimes in ramshackle workers' quarters.
Forget Southeast Asia at your peril. That should be President Obama’s mantra as he heads off to Asia today.
Here’s one of the most exotic give-back trips we’ve ever heard of: How about galloping on exotic Marwari horses through the deserts of India’s Rajasthan for two weeks, delivering medical care to remote villages?
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