What Nike and Ralph Lauren don’t do is make their own products in the U.S. or elsewhere – and this has become their competitive advantage...So let’s stop whining about a few “made in China” tags and start cheering for all of the great athletic performances made possible by superior U.S. innovation.

American business has enormous influence all over the world. It is a pace setter. Yet even so in almost every case, apart from aeroplane manufacturing, local companies are usually the mainstay of their economies...American Soft Power certainly exists and I think much of it is welcome whilst much of it is dross. Let us keep it in proportion.

President Thein Sein of Myanmar addressed a dinner of American business executives in this city near the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat on Friday, inviting them to invest in his impoverished country after an absence of 25 years. The appearance of Mr. Thein Sein, who traveled to Cambodia from his nearby country for the occasion, was the latest sign of a significant warming of relations between the United States and Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country that had been firmly in China’s orbit.

I was recently at a Fortune 30 company working with a leadership core team to examine these questions and see how to cascade learnings and adjust lens viewings to be able to truly get the best of a global team dynamics.

Rather than encouraging and welcoming entrepreneurs, America is turning them away in droves.

"The old public diplomacy was, 'You tell me what you think and I tell you what I think, and that's the end,'" the former ambassador told China Daily at the Meridian International Center, which is situated in a historic mansion in the US capital.