China Love You: The Death of Global Competition

Every year in America there is a Super Bowl, an annual war between the best two football teams in the country. Net income for Coca Cola is running a few billion dollars a year ahead of its bitter rival, Pepsi Cola. Recent news reports say that China has outdone the USA in rankings for the world’s fastest supercomputers; but America bested China in the gold medals at the last Olympics. Competition is built into the American way of life. But is it the best way to live? When we perceive the world as a football game–as a competition to beat others so we can be the best and biggest–is there a human cost that all of us pay? If the two largest superpowers in the world have a trade war, does anybody truly win? China Love You is a book written by two prominent business people, one from America, and one from China. It tells the story of how both of them came across the same ancient book from Asia–the Diamond Cutter Sutra–in their early years, and used its wisdom to build two highly successful companies, one in New York and one in Beijing. Later, they met each other working on a business collaboration, and became close friends. In this book, they help all of us understand the differences between China and America, and give some revolutionary suggestions about how the two countries can work together, each helping the other to become more successful than ever before. What could the world be, if the two biggest economies made it their goal to make each other successful? And what will happen if we keep up the grand football game: What will happen to our children and our planet, if there is a second Cold War, and it goes bad? China Love You offers some solutions that could make the difference, for all of us.