U.S. and China Still Sparring, But Smiling – Alison Smale

From New York Times blog:

After the geopolitics session saw a Chinese panelist offering lessons in democracy and an American speaker underscoring modesty, Chinese and American experts clashed — if good-naturedly, for the most part — during an economics-laden discussion Wednesday on whether the rest of the world still catches a cold if the United States sneezes. [Full Text]