BREAKING: The US and China Just Announced a Huge Deal on Climate—and it's a Gamechanger

[Hestia]

170. With all the grumbling from the populace about the air pollution that is out of control

and with some slight accordance on the Umbrella Revolution (like all uprisings it is has dropped from the news quickly), I think that China will be like Germany by 2030 -- unlike us, unless we get our acts together.

Maybe it is the way I am reading his statement, but it is almost a shot across the bow moment. "Let's see who gets their first," attitude about it, which is good for us/US. If we do nothing, China takes over top dog slot for the next 100-350 years (not that there is anything wrong with that*) which has diplomats pausing in the West. China can explode in their markets if they turn inward and use those yuan's they've kept careful control of for decades, freezing out the West, because they've collectively decided to do something as a nation. They are good at it. They have millennial of experience of thinking generations down the road while we get distracted by the next shiny pretty we see.

This plays right into China's hands and will be interesting to see how we, as a nation, play by their rules or ours. This is a game they can win, economically and diplomatically.

* pop tv reference