Charlie Rose

ksjayhawk  01/20/2012 07:00 AM Report

I am respectfully pointing out that Mr. Locke is being unrealistic if he thinks he can persuade the Chinese leadership to change China's business policies. Thanks to the greed of our CEOs, China is now in the driver's seat. They recently bought and set out to sea on their first aircraft carrier thanks to our CEOs. Eventually I expect them to decide they don't need to share any profits and move to nationalize all the factories our CEOs have built over there.

finalfantasytown  01/19/2012 07:46 AM Report

intellectual property is much more about political issue than economics because it is related to the infrastructure of a society. Do you think the society with communism in mind needs IP?

Sheldon  01/18/2012 10:49 AM Report

In this argument, I seem to generally agree with REMant. This interview was bogus. Chinese people do NOT value, or at least idealize American "diversity", especially if we mean ethnic diversity. By the way, anyone who has lived in East Asia for a few months can attest to the sad state of intellectual property rights here. Whether it be people laying out a quilt of pirated DVDs in the subway station, or the amazing network of torrent websites, I.P. theft is ubiquitous. In a sense, its flattery. They really dig our music and movies. Sadly it is not because our media displays a deep appreciation of universal human rights. Rather, we have the just happen to have best damn special effects! Just look at one of most popular movies. Just look to the latest Transformers movie, there's nothing like a giant alien robots war to drive home the idea of individual freedoms! Though Charlie talks in the language of respect, it is clear he does not understand Chinese history of culture. For most of human history, this part of the world was dominant. The shame the Qing suffered at the hands of western aggression is reinforced in every Chinese student. The whole tone of this conversation is wrong. Kissinger is right on this (he was bizarrely honest with Charlie a few months ago) We must develop a framework in which the USA and China can resolve disputes and develop coordinated policy. Absent this, there can only be trouble.

piuks  01/18/2012 06:20 AM Report

I do not agree with this Guy, he lives in a bubble that is driven by his job description. China is a big country, a big population,but, it seems that most commentators know what is best. Americans are so good at teaching others, but are fools within their own society. Why is it that America is ladden with debts, but still continues to spruik it's own worth? Let China get on with it, they have to manage a lot of poor people, not put them into a credit crunch so they can live. Go away you American dictators, you have wrecked my country (Australia) with your big talk and crappy educational system! Clean up your own yard and stop trying to drive the World down to your level!!

finalfantasytown  01/18/2012 03:31 AM Report

It is not right to have that kind of emotion when Romney talks about China. I believe they are strong believers of big bang theory and will do great contribution to prove how earth was formed. I don't understand why Gary mentions lava. I think the society is projecting the mountain-making period millions of millions of years ago. The development in China is amazing and full of happiness. I am becoming more and more interested in why human being has free will but robot doesn't.

tabs  01/17/2012 06:41 PM Report

History does matter as ones experience shapes ones perceptions of the world as well as ones standing in the world. The Chinese conundrum is that they have moved from an impoverished undeveloped nation with great instability to one of the great emerging Superpowers in the span of 65 years. The solution for the Chinese is slow but steady, in order to maintain domestic tranquility in moving towards development. The Chinese trajectory is towards a more open society,and where over time the Chinese will have to play a greater, more engaged role on the world stage as being a Superpower dictates. Thus time and balance are the key words to the Chinese leadership.

REMant  01/17/2012 11:32 AM Report

There's no point in trying to patronize the Chinese or contain them, nor certainly pussyfoot around the issue. Whom are we going to vote for, a guy who's so far been completely hypocritical about our relations with them, or a guy who'd like nothing better than to slap sanctions on them, if not restart the Cold War, neither of which, however, is willing to confront the real problem? The latter's complaint about putting companies out of business is a joke. Wouldn't it be simpler and a lot more just, just to tell Bernanke and co to knock it off?

With respect to change there, one must distinguish between what can be achieved by training and machinery, and what must be done to really advance public education.

And I see Charlie's leading witnesses again. I do not think the evidence supports the idea that America's diversity, etc led to greatness, first because it has hardly ever existed, and we tried to as hard as possible to get eliminate, segregate, or tame it, and, secondly, because our "greatness" to this point has lain mainly in exploitation of the continent's resources.