Power Shift: From US to China?

China: A "smart" (or sneaky) power but not a super power -- yet (do they want to be one?).
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-china-to-overtake-us-as-worlds-biggest-assh,17277/
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/02/01/exclusive-eric-schmidt-unloads-on-china-in-new-book/

Side note: What does the super power do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2m3bI52dww  (In Korea)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhDSoAGoJJE (In Taiwan)

On the other hand, conservatives seem to be paying more attention to "Obama's bowing to dictators"
http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/04/13/conservative-media-continue-tired-obsession-wit/163106

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obama-bowing-to-foreign-dictators--and-his-golf-game/2011/12/08/gIQAvANkfO_blog.html


More from Mahbubani on the West's Own Undoing: Inability to recognize the "structural weaknesses in the core value systems and institutions" --

• Budgetary discipline is disappearing
• Low savings and investment rates
• The work ethic is eroding, while politicians delude workers into believing that they can retain high wages despite becoming internationally uncompetitive.
• Leadership is lacking -- any politician who states hard truths is immediately voted out.
• Individual freedom -- great idea -- e.g., slavery ended. "But freedom does not only solve problems; it can also cause them." Since 1960, the US population has increased 41% while violent crime has risen by 560%. 

The U.S. public opinion on foreign policy
http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/01/28/is-obama-out-of-step-with-america-on-foreign-policy/

Reflection on his view about China being "smart": It is a "good" or "bad" government?

There's still hope.

The New China = ?

http://cn.nytimes.com/article/opinion/2013/01/30/c30tijuana/en/