power tools, bath tauls, tea kettles, pyjamas, and dinner dishes. in a generation, they didn't just target one category and seek to dominate it. it seems like it decided to go after everything all at once. at the same time, productive workers were nod paid well. so domestic consumption is relatively smaller percentage of national income. so china could sell cheep, and by finished products not from us, but from itself. >> joining us to look at the fortunes of a saggon dragon are derek, a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute, and robert manning, a senior fellow at the center on international security of the atlantic council. derek, depending on what year it is, you pick up the business pages, and a supercharged hard charging china is a problem for the united states, or a sagging china is a problem for the united states. and it's hard to figure out how to - how this economy is reliant. >> the fact is we are not that reliant. the united states doesn't ex-mort much. 2-way invest: what we are responding to is china is big, every time some