Trump and the US has been siphoning off the Chinese for decades....

Trump and the US has been siphoning off the Chinese for decades. The pendulum has swung as been predicted all the while. The GFC is just the fruition. The straw that broke the camels back. Like Aust the US has way to much of its laborforce either working for no wage or working on red tape in the public sector (in between checking up on what's going on over the internet). These countries will continue down this tangent until 'true' structural changes are implemented starting with every mans right to a wage.

You can't throw substance into capitalist doctrine with work for welfare and you can't expect a country that has the consumer run 70% of gdp when 50% of the consumers not working or underemployed to keep performing. What you can do is throw copious amounts of spin. The GFC is just an indicator that the spin has time limits before truths surface.

The best gov'ts can do these days is provide the media with celebrities like Arnie of California and Julia of Altona. They don't even have the talent to build infrastructure these days.

And now we have little Johnny back to endorse his biography. What's the title again? And what's his latest catch cry. Because we are all in this together.