and you are referring to the prc into the united states. -- the prc and to the united states. >> i thinkrent answers but first of all, the imbalance in the international economy in a way is a reflection of the imbalance between the u.s. and chinese economies. if you believe in -- the united states spends too much and save still. chinese safety much and spends too little. and that gets reflected in a trade surplus with china and deficit for the united states and so on. it's really an interest of both countries, simultaneously to move in the direction of the other were china truly has has a consumer led economy and the united states has more balance between savings, investment and consumption. that is easy for me to say. it's very hard for the two societies today because there are vested interests who like the situation as it is, and benefit from the imbalance. and so it's going to require leadership in both countries to sort of change domestic and then external priorities. with respect to taiwan, taiwan is not a big player in international economy but it is an important player. the questi

and prc at some levels about the current state of affairs. well, enough of my comments.i'd love to hear from you, and, please, your observations and comments for any of the panelists. please identify yourself. yes, please. yes, you. loud for the tv. >> i'm with dynasty tv. the question for dr. wei. can you give analysis how the political scandal, how did that affect the power transitions in >> [inaudible] question was how did the issues affect the transition or is it affecting the transition in the prc. an easy question perhaps, maybe not. it's controversial. >> yeah, it's controversial. [laughter] in china, it's not called a "scale -- "scandal," but an incident. it was an incident. i'm not exactly know what the exact influence -- the influence on election, but from the media, i think the party shall deal with this from his wife. >> thank you. >> one of the consequences of the scandal is that it won't be on the committee, and there was a good chance back in the beginning of the year that it would end up on the standing committee, and that hope has disappeared, and so it

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we can't measure a prc until he find out something that we can measure and we draw a correlation or a relationship to the things that we can't measure and then that is the way that we guide and understand how things are going. can't measure nutrition so i look at other indications of nutrition, height and weight and so forth but what big data does is allows us to understand the world and its complexities, understand exactly how it really is. so that necessitates a lot of technology to receive, to sort, to understand, to correlate. a lot of statistics though that makes our nation safer and also enables us to do it at a much lower cost. >> roger i was hoping to ask you what is possible? in the last -- i remember going out to afghanistan two years ago and there was a lot of skepticism about the now being able to crunch all this and actually spit out results with tells you there is a higher chance of insurgent activity in this one area. what is the last quantum leap forward in the last few years? >> i was thinking about that and i really think a good proxy is this is our third year the se

we can't measure a prc until he find out something that we can measure and we draw a correlation or a relationship to the things that we can't measure and then that is the way that we guide and understand how things are going. can't measure nutrition so i look at other indications of nutrition, height and weight and so forth but what big data does is allows us to understand the world and its complexities, understand exactly how it really is. so that necessitates a lot of technology to receive, to sort, to understand, to correlate. a lot of statistics though that makes our nation safer and also enables us to do it at a much lower cost. >> roger i was hoping to ask you what is possible? in the last -- i remember going out to afghanistan two years ago and there was a lot of skepticism about the now being able to crunch all this and actually spit out results with tells you there is a higher chance of insurgent activity in this one area. what is the last quantum leap forward in the last few years? >> i was thinking about that and i really think a good proxy is this is our third year the se