US vs. China
[Updated on Nov. 29, 2011]
Like a mad man, the U.S. started to import so many goods from China after 2001. This trend has continued for a decade to put a huge amount of dollars in the hand of China.
Meantime, China like a mad man started to manufacture cars in such a large amount.
The trends of export and import of the US with China are as follows:
Surprisingly, the gap between export from the US to China is so small compared with its import form China.
Indeed, American consumers should realize that Wal-Mart in 2002 did local-buying in China in an mount of $1.2 billion. The share of Chinese goods in the total sales of Wal-Mart reached 95% in this year.
Alternately, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that between 2001 and 2006, Wal-Mart’s trade deficit with China alone eliminated nearly 200,000 U.S. jobs.Accordingly, "Occupy Wal-Mart and Chinese Embassy" seems to be more reasonable than "Occupy Wall Street."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart
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Recently a Chinese technician working in the U.S. got a call from a rich household.
There lived an old woman alone in a very expensive house in a well protected high-class residential district for rich people. The Chinese man fixed a telecommunications network problem in the house. Then the old woman started to beat the price for his work. He made concession, since she was roughly of the same age as his mother and she looked like loving a PC. Then, the old rich woman asked him to fix a troubled window in the next room. He did not refuse it, though he started to feel thirsty. The temperature in the house was set higher, probably because her health needed it. He wondered if he should ask for water, though he did not because she did no look like taking a hint from his look. Finally, he finished the work. He went out of the house, rushed to his car, got in, and took a bottle of water to drink in haste.
The kind Chinese technician repented having given her discount, and thought that any Chinese clients would give him a glass of water in such a situation. He assured himself that he liked the Chinese way much better than this American way.
(http://news.searchina.ne.jp/disp.cgi?y=2011&d=0929&f=national_0929_163.shtml)
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Appendix. Chinese Students in the US from Families of Chinese Leaders
Chinese elite politicians shamelessly send their sons and daughters to elite universities and colleges in the US, disconnecting their love and ties with hundreds of millions of poor Chinese.
Proud Americans however, though, have come to feel some problems.
The way I would put it, there's a deep ambivalence about Americans. Chinese leaders send their sons and daughters in great numbers here to study. Many of their sons and daughters are living long term in the United States, opening businesses. I think there's great respect for American technological and financial wizardry, great admiration. The Chinese characters for the United States are the "Beautiful Country." The traditional name for San Francisco is "Old Gold Mountain." There's this image of the United States as a beautiful, powerful, clever nation and I think that's the dominant sentiment -- for the United States, in a sense, to be a role model for China.
But when the Chinese define you as a teacher or a role model, they expect the teacher to be deferential and considerate of the student. And so, often, Chinese people see the United States acting in what they believe is an arrogant, thoughtless way that basically is designed to keep China down. So there's this admiration that competes with this sense of victimhood, this sense of "You don't respect us," sort of what we call the Rodney Dangerfield-"I-don't-get-no-respect" kind of view of the United States. So I think it's deeply ambivalent. But, on balance, the prevailing sentiment is very positive.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/china/interviews/lampton.html
Yet, American rich men welcome these young Chinese in schools in America. Such Americans might be thinking that future China would respect the US in the frame work of student-teacher relationships. But could it be so simple? It is so since wealth that support living of Chinese students in America is from hundreds of millions of low-paid hard working Chinese.
In Communist China, the top leadership contains few persons educated in the United States: the Cold War period made for tenuous China-America links and the Cultural Revolution disrupted academic exchanges with the rest of the world. However, the middle ranks of the People's Republic of China government contain very large numbers of people who received their education in the United States, and a graduate degree from an American university has become an important benefit to political and economic career advancement. In addition, the sons and daughters of many Chinese political leaders, such as Jiang Zemin, are students in the United States. With the leadership transition to the fourth generation of Chinese leaders under Hu Jintao, American educated Chinese officials are increasingly found in powerful positions.For example, China has no scientists who was awarded a Nobel prize. But Japan has some. And all of these Japanese scientists were educated in Japan, from primary schools to universities, where only the Japanese language is used for every subject, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medical science, etc.
http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?/topic/4597-overseas-chinese-reference/
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Mat 10:12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.
Mat 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.