Whatever Obama does to China, he should be be aware that he is dealing with a huge population of 1.8 bil people in Asia. Why is he allowing the above issues to happen- arm sales to Taiwan, meeting dalai lama? To what extent can the revaluation of Chinese currency save his American economy? He must not forget that the Chinese people have their day now because they are very resilient, hard-working people. I must say the most hard-working people on earth ! The Americans are generally lazy, carefree people. They have thrived on capitalist values in the past, not hard work. That´s why they have a lot of obese people. It´s time they learn the meaning of hard-work and down-to-earth values.Obama is very articulate and charismatic. Chinese leaders must not be carried away by his charm and words. He has demonstrated his heart is not with China. China must always stay sober, alert, sensible , careful and clever at all time.

My view is this. Anyone using negative thoughts, words or actions is a poorly developed human. What happened to the old fashioned defination of the word intelligent? "If you can´t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen". If you don´t like the way another says prayers, don´t try to change it. Be a helpful neighbor. China has good people, they don´t need negative interferiance to their way, no one does. Think posative. I designed large factories for China and taught English to little Chinese children for 18 years. Been there, done that. Richard N. Green

The US, has only changed the colour of its President! The REST is ALL the SAME! Watch out chinese people.. they will try by all means to mantain their"Leader-ship"! Like always throwing the stone and.. hiding the hand!! But they have lost the race and .. they know it! Keep it up.. 11. % growth.. and NO WALL STREET..! May be you will have to lend us, Germans some money in the future to! Hope not! CongratulationsBoldie - Germany

Dialogue is the best programme of this type that I have seen. Can I comment on one of your broadcasts that I particularly remember? It was about the credit crunch and subsequent western criticism towards China. I am not anti-west but I think your speaker was right to concentrate on the ´preachy´ nature of the criticism and how the west blamed the ´bartender for being drunk´. Unfortunately preaching is part of the software of western civilisation along with Hollywood and Rambo. In the West, as citizens, we are also preached at. ´Blaming the Bartender´ is also typical. I remember at the start of the last credit boom (about 10 - 15 years ago) being told that manufacturing was no longer necessary because it was dirty, polluting and troublesome. Instead all we had to do in the west was spend money and concentrate on financial services - what could possibly go wrong?

Sine Obama has taken action on arms sales and dialogue with Dalai, I completely believe he is not China supporter even not respect Chinese´s will. Hence, he just take advantage of China´s advantages to reach his goal.