Dylan it is not about politics it's about trade, those guys have been arround for longer than we can remember and they want to play the same old game that they always have in history: They provide the goods for the rest of the world. They have always had Tinanmens, it seems to be the only way that they can be ruled. Mandarins did the same. But Commies or not they trade and they have done it for about 5000 years and will keep doing so. They knew about currency manouvers long before the West had an organized society. In an English Antiques magazine I read an article that cites a letter writen by the London furniture manufacturers to King George III in 1715, and if you change the dates and signatures you get the same letter that GM could have written to President BO just a few weeks ago.