China Studies America, America Studies Weiner

Economy, Jobs, and Debt are all issues which are essential to the average American. Given how globalized the economy has become, with supply chains for most businesses encompassing multiple countries, few nations are independent enough to navel-gaze without putting their future in jeopardy.

Much of this rests in buyer-seller, supply-and-demand dynamics. Being able to predict who needs what, and how much they'll pay for it will determine a nation's trade surplus or trade deficit. Deutsche Welle has an article which describes what China has been doing, is doing, and will be doing to become the largest single-nation economy. Much of it lies in monitoring America to grab the clearance sales and entice us into impulse buys.

The key points the article makes are:

1. China has more, and possibly better educated, political analysts, and they're specifically allocated to competing with America.
2. America alone could fall below China for economic (and political) clout, but not America, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, et al combined.

Since this issue relates to our future, that would debatable make it more important than the passing and temporary issues of the present. Here are some examples of how current issues can be re-routed onto this issue:

• Michelle Bachmann running for President: I don't see why anyone is surprised or excited about this. If we had asked China, any of the thousands of political analysts they have watching us for exploitation opportunities could have pointed it out.
• GOP Debate in General: Did you see the size of the crowd? Somewhere in Beijing there was an even bigger room of chinese analysts, possibly in the hundreds, taking minutes so they could plan how to skew our economy even more in their favor.
• Anthony Weiner: The funniest thing about all this, is that somewhere in China, dozens of political analysts have these images saved, indexed, and are running them through computers to look for more holes in our economic defenses as part of their job.