Lovers and Fighters. Could someone please find a couples' therapist for USA and China? These two super powers keep shifting between courtship and fighting. This time a battle over Barack Obama's side affair with Dalai Lama. China won't accept such extra-marital affairs. And now China is threatening USA with economic pressure. Threatening to cut the credit card into two pieces, to stop the shopping binge. So who really wears the pants in this scenario?
Subsequently, the USA demands that China revalue its currency, because the yuán, President Obama says, is kept at an artificially low level to give China an unfair advantage in selling its exports. 'I don't want your material goods, I just want a lover' - seems to be the message.
Paradoxical that these two fighters and lovers can't make up for good. They both know they need each other. China for legitimacy, and partly for the spreading of a US cultural image of the good life to its growing middle class. And with China's hands deep into the pants - the real treasury - of the USA, the USA needs this massive bread winner for its livelihood. A match between The Material Girl and The Money Maker. A match made in heaven gone wrong. So please find a couple's therapist. Fast.
Subsequently, the USA demands that China revalue its currency, because the yuán, President Obama says, is kept at an artificially low level to give China an unfair advantage in selling its exports. 'I don't want your material goods, I just want a lover' - seems to be the message.
Paradoxical that these two fighters and lovers can't make up for good. They both know they need each other. China for legitimacy, and partly for the spreading of a US cultural image of the good life to its growing middle class. And with China's hands deep into the pants - the real treasury - of the USA, the USA needs this massive bread winner for its livelihood. A match between The Material Girl and The Money Maker. A match made in heaven gone wrong. So please find a couple's therapist. Fast.
Source:
BBC World - and the US Sensus Bureau