Message from rcate

[Anonymous]

China and America? Can we become partners in the 21st century? This new global economy has few historical models; are we up to the challenge of forgeing a peaceful set of partnerships or will we maintain xenophobic compitition with the worlds other economic trade groups. I am hopeful that we can but doubtful we have the right people in positions of power to forge these unions.

We face many issues concerning the changing of our own economic reality. The advantage we had at the close of WWII is over we need to change, be better, smarter and adaptable. It would apear that we are attempting the "Venice model" being the middleman, the trader of the world's goods, but we do not invest in the infrastructure of transport, we have sold and abandoned our ship building industry, are we in a partnership with Korea and China who have a massive shipbuilding industry, Malaysia builds Electronic componets, India does tele-servicing and a lot of programming, China seems to make about everything else, except for cars which Japan out-does the US. These are just a few examples of our global economy, but where does that leave the US?

If we form real partnerships with other countries we can all succeed. But first we need to learn each other's ways. We have much more in common than we sometimes think...find the commonality and work together. It just might work!