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While America Bails Out Its Banking System, Chinese Premier Addresses Entrepreneurs

Chinese premier urges exporters to develop their own brands

Source: Xinhua - September 28, 2008

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday called on domestic exporters to develop their own brands and intellectual property rights and improve product quality.

In a brief meeting with the entrepreneurs attending the 2008 Summer Davos, also known as the Annual Meeting of New Champions, Wen acknowledged that China's exports have been growing very quickly, but they do lack brands and their own IPRs in particular.

"The competition in the current world is actually decided by intellectual property rights," he told the entrepreneurs shortly before addressing the opening ceremony of the economic forum organized by the prestigious World Economic Forum. Read more

Sort of a striking contrast between the largest Capitalist economy and the largest Communist economy.

2MM at RNC - "TIME TO CHOOSE"

From right to left - Speaker Newt Gingrich, Lisa Graham Keegan - education advisor to McCain, Rev. Al Sharpton, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, Governor Roy Romer and Bob Compton.

At the invitation of Speaker Newt Gingrich, I had the opportunity to speak at a breakout session at the Republican National Convention called "Time to Choose - Children or the Bureaucracy" co-hosted by Speaker Gingrich and Rev Sharpton.

With about 500 delegates and media in attendance, each of the speakers, including Minnesota Governor Pawlenty (not pictured), spoke about the urgent need to bring education in America up to world standards.

View Speaker Gingrich's remarks at the session. 

Speaker Gingrich's comments early in his speech - "Bob Compton may have found the vehicle in his film Two Million Minutes to really create a national dialog at a new level."