“What Lies saw during his five-day trip to the U.S. was proof of a shifting order in the global economy. The U.S. and China are expanding their own industries and isolating themselves from the rest of the world. The Americans are trying to focus on the vast domestic market. The Chinese, meanwhile, are expanding their control of key natural resources and technologies – and flooding the world with domestically produced products that are one thing above all else: cheap. As economic blocs, the two nations are clear adversaries.”