My life became about getting rid of it and obsessing about getting rid of it.

It needs the US to guide it with ingenuity, initiative, and stamina in the direction of peace and prosperity. Obsessing about who might eventually replace America is bound to get us all lost.

BEIJING Since 2010, global financial circles have been obsessing about China s slowing economy. But, while the country barely met the official target of 7.5 annual GDP growth in the second quarter of this year generating significant anxiety worldwide China s government seemingly remains calm, showing no indication that it plans to launch yet another stimulus package.

A few leaders have invoked the post World War II Marshall Plan as a model for large scale European development assistance for the region, the aim being to ensure the sustainability of a democratic transformation and generate long term political and economic benefits for Europe. But the mainstream reaction has been much more fearful media and politicians throughout the European Union are obsessing about the threat of waves of migrants reaching their borders.