The real issue is 'How do you help China integrate into the global economy in a way that maximizes growth and minimizes disruptions?
The real answer is to allow access to the EU for goods produced in China and for EU producers to adapt to the challenge.
There is a lot of focus on the visit and understandably so. China has shown last year that it will give into significant outside pressure. It wants to do as little as possible and escape a protectionist fall out.
What we learned in China Aviation Oil is that management who initially was doing a terrific job can go off the tracks and if you aren't on top of the situation on an ongoing basis you can end up losing a lot of money.
There is a shortage of zinc concentrates around the world and that shortage is constraining smelter production in China and places like South Korea and keeping supplies fairly tight.
There is a shipping boom and a port boom. As long as China is driving the market, the attraction of ships and ports will be sustained.
There is a risk to the long-term relationship with China for each day that it goes by unresolved
There is a risk that if China liberalizes the foreign exchange system when the banks need to be recapitalized, there could be trauma in the system. My impression is that the Chinese are going to be as gradual as they can.
There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don't have reliable birth records.
There are more cars. In China you see so many people walking along the street. Here I saw very few people walking.