Another year of lackluster payroll growth
Nonfarm payroll jobs grew by 1.6% between December 2012 and December 2013.
After a remarkable run of economic expansion that has lifted tens of millions out of poverty, the Chinese public is waking up to the side effects of progress.
In China, one of the greatest economic transformations in history is taking place, as millions move from poverty into the middle class.
While the American public increasingly has been looking inward after years of economic stress at home and a decade of wars abroad, they have a keen awareness of the challenges posed to the U.S. by China in the superpower competition between the two countries.