liu wen is also the first chinese model to ever walk the victoria's secret runway. huge coup, since it's usually dominated by blond bombshells. why do you think you were one of the only asian models to ever model for victoria's secret? >> if every day you eat salad, sometimes you just want to eat a little bit of meat. you know what that means? yeah, because you eat too much something, you just want to try a different feeling. >> reporter: are you the meat in this? >> no, i'm not meat. >> reporter: you're the salad. she was among a group of models featured in "vogue," heralding the rise of the asian model. the photo was stunning. but the headline drew media fire. they said a new crop of asian models from wchina, south korea and japan. that's a little bit like saying, it's 2011 and we finally think that asian women are beautiful. >> reporter: this blogger is cynical about the trend. she says it's driven not by a new appreciation for asian beauty, but by a pure profit model. the boom iing buying power of t chinese consumer. >> china become the number one luxury market

2012nd 13 doesn't want the administration of hu jintao and wen jiabao to go out with another fiscal bank because they'll be cleaning up after it. >> liu: is there any point in china richard and nouriel the chinese will be able to jump start domestic demand? has the financial crisis just delayed this? but is there a point where they could mp start this, richard? >> no, they can't jump start it. it's going to happen gradually if it hapns at all and i still think it will take some years because of the various sort of political power in the economy held by the large state enterprises which are largely oligopolys. and unless you can sort of get the banking system to lend to other firms, private firms other than the big state firms and sort of power that provincial party leaders, city party leaders, township party leaders-- not to say the central party leaders-- over lending and infrastructure a investment untithese officials aret judge purely by the amot of g.d.p. they churn out every year. it's going to be tough because you have to make political... you have to have political reform alongside economic reform and so far the have not been a