Chinese ports are outfitted with modern loading and unloading pieces of equipment, which achieve superior levels of efficiency, such as those desired by the largest western ports, not to mention the issue of cost in this industry, where they are also invincible, since they have the best cost x production x efficiency ratio in the world.

I don´t believe either that the United States will be able to solve their financial issues in the short term, or that they will recover from the current crisis in the next four years, even with a new president-elect, who promised to remodel the country in accordance with the successful Democrat models, and brings a new face, incorporated in the person of Mr. Barack Obama.

Although the financial problems that plague the USA have not yet reached their worst level, and that they reflect to the western world the fear of the future, I see that China will use this crisis as a major opportunity.

We cannot forget the obviously inhuman labor conditions of the Chinese, combined with the fact that respect to others and to the environment are not yet part of the culture of this nation; however, on the other hand, the level of investments and the solidity of the Bank of China, added to the Chinese people´s willingness to do things right, is undeniable.

This country is ready to conquer more and more space in the international scenario and, in spite of its copies and replications, the Chinese people are already starting to feel proud of themselves, of the country´s citizens and of its achievements, looking to the West to assess what we have done wrong, so that they may find their own path, avoiding our mistakes and copying our achievements.