America No. 1 (with ample facts against it); without changing this mentality, no incentive for reform and changes (remember the "changes" Obama promised?).  Without realizing and admitting the deficiencies of the American system, no changes but printing dollars to cover the syndrome but buy the cancer...

On the other hand, since later seventies, the Chinese always admit our own deficiencies (to the point of self-debasement); thus the incentive to change and reform.  Thirties years later, the facts speak for all.