To the Point
The Shanghai Expo and America's Economic Decline
This year's Shanghai Expo celebrates China's extraordinary pace of economic development. The US barely showed up. Does that half-hearted effort reveal more than an image problem? Should Americans and their leaders sit up and take notice? Also, BP resumes work to kill its leaking well, and WikiLeaks and the war in Afghanistan.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenThis year's Shanghai Expo celebrates China's extraordinary pace of economic development. The US barely showed up. Does that half-hearted effort reveal more than an image problem? Should Americans and their leaders sit up and take notice? Also, BP resumes work to kill its leaking well, and 92,000 secret reports on the war in Afghanistan are now on line. We ask what they reveal and what the likely impact might be.
Banner image: Commissioner General Jose Villareal in front of the USA Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo
