An interesting comment from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg over the weekend in a conversation he had with the Wall Street Journal during his trip to Hong Kong.
The message to his fellow Americans, in short: Stop blaming the Chinese for everything.
‘If you look at the US, you look at who we’re electing to Congress, to the Senate—they can’t read,’ he was quoted as saying. ‘I’ll bet you a bunch of these people don’t have passports. We’re about to start a trade war with China if we’re not careful here…only because nobody knows where China is. Nobody knows what China is.’
Of course he’s right. Witches aside, the apparently growing inclination among US political candidates to view ignorance as some kind of badge of pride is a worrying, ugly and ultimately self-destructive trend for the country.
Is the US centre, then, longing for someone who can rise above the increasingly bitter partisanship, who can ensure the United States steers a steady, moderate and enlightened course—including in its dealings with its key strategic partners/competitors?
Bloomberg must be sorely tempted to find out.
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A powerful and economically-matured country, the US, which has over 200 years of capitalist system is now facing a financial crisis and blaming it entirely on the 30 year-old pseudo-capitalist Chinese Yuan policy? The Americans should clear their minds and think precisely what the financial problem’s cause is. Having high tariffs on China’s tires does not shift the profit back to American tire producers, it simply shifts to China’s and US’s competitors.
Ken Hortin
It is about time that citizens of the USA realized that their nation is in deep, deep trouble. That the USA is loosing daily the influence it could impose on the rest of the planet at will. Their time is past. Same for England, France, and all the other old powers. There is a new world order occurring and nothing will prevent this from happening. Bring on the new and invigorating, out with the old and stale. One can only hope that china keeps a tight rein on religion on the way through. Otherwise all that is new and exiting will be severely truncated.