花街牵头，美51总裁敦促奥巴马与中国签订投资合约

中国正值经济转型，如果听从西方的“指示”，应转换成“消费经济”，如果真成了，那中国的贸易顺差极其可能变成“服务业进口”逆差，逆差嘛，西方服务业自然赚大了。

那么对中国这块肥肉，是打死扔掉，还是“亲热”一下，赚一把，是个难题。奥巴马嘴上客套，却没停过找机会攻击中国，几大国策皆以抑制中国为核心，那美国真的一点也不想捞一把吗？

President Obama reaffirms commitment to U.S.-China Bilateral Investment Treaty

President Barack Obama's reaffirmation of the U.S. commitment to a high-standard bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with China was welcomed by US-China Business Council President John Frisbie, who told reporters Feb. 11 during a conference call that the successful conclusion of a U.S.-China BIT would help expand market share for U.S. companies. Obama spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Feb. 10 by telephone. During the call, Obama “encouraged China to continue its move toward consumption-led growth and a market-determined exchange rate, reiterated his commitment to pursue a high-standard and comprehensive bilateral investment treaty” and called for work to narrow differences on cyber issues, according to a White House statement. The Xinhua News Agency reported that Xi said China and the U.S. should accelerate BIT negotiations and China hopes the U.S. will make efforts to relax restrictions on high-tech exports to China. Frisbie was one of three private sector officials briefing reporters in advance of the U.S.-China CEO Bilateral Investment Dialogue, which will be held on Feb. 12 at the headquarters of Goldman Sachs. The dialogue's hosts—Goldman Sachs, the Paulson Institute, the U.S.-China Business Council and the China Development Research Foundation—will use the dialogue to help mobilize further support of the business community for a U.S.-China BIT. U.S. and Chinese officials recently wrapped up a round of BIT negotiations in Washington. The BIT has the potential to transform the U.S.-China relationship by reducing investment barriers, which are effectively market access barriers, Frisbie said. China has investment barriers and ownership restrictions across a broad swath of industries, including insurance and automobiles, he said. A BIT would pick up unfinished business from China's World Trade Organization accession and also lay the foundation for China eventually joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Frisbie said.

奥巴马正式邀请习近平对美国进行国事访问，大家知道了，都觉得是小事。

路透社：China's Xi to make first state visit to U.S. as both flag problems

高盛的宣传网页，是牵头人：

央台美国站采访高盛头头：


大家也许对中国和澳大利亚的自贸协议影响不深了，那协议，不少澳大利亚服务业的大亨行家们觉得是“天上掉下来的馅饼”，对澳大利亚是有利极了，估计习近平有几个想法：

（一）澳大利亚服务业还不错，中国正好借鉴学习；
（二）习李希望借此突击中国改革；
（三）本着和平发展，经济互利，习李不惧让他人得益。

服务业转行，在高盛看来，金融第一，银行、保险、投资、债券股票发行、跨境资金、境内外收购，华尔街都是大拿。但是，举个例子，新公司上市发行股票（新股上市），中国从来就没放过，中金基本吃了（朱镕基之子朱云的地盘）。现在难道华尔街不试试？


问题是，中国也不是傻子（前几年温家宝好糊弄点儿），要想吃，也不会主动送过去让别人吞了吧？要美国放权跨太平洋合约，放弃重返亚洲的政策，不太现实，但是美国也得适当地让些步双方可能达成协议，让澳大利亚这样的小角色得点利益，和让美国一边围追堵劫，一边获大利，难得多。


美51总裁敦促奥巴马与中国签订投资合约公开信全文：

51 American CEOs Call on President Obama to Make a High-Standard Bilateral Investment Treaty a Priority for November Meeting with President Xi
USCBC Leads Effort to Advance a US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty

Washington, DC, October 15, 2014—The US-China Business Council (USCBC) today organized a letter sent to President Obama and signed by 51 American CEOs supporting a high-standard US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). 

In the letter to the President, the CEOs urge the administration to “make the prioritization of a high-standard BIT between the United States and China a visible part of your visit to China in November and bilateral meeting with President Xi.”

“America's business leaders have sent a strong message to the White House supporting a high-standard US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty,” USCBC President John Frisbie said. “The administration should make the BIT a top economic focus of President Obama's upcoming meetings with PRC President Xi Jinping."

"Completing a high-standard US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty will have a significant and lasting impact on the trajectory of the US-China commercial relationship and a more equitable commercial framework to guide the relationship forward,” Frisbie concluded.

CEOs from the following companies signed the letter: Abbott, ACE Limited / ACE Group, Aetna, Alcoa, Amway Corporation, Applied Materials, Inc., Archer Daniels Midland Company, Cabot Corporation, Cargill Inc., The Carlyle Group, Caterpillar Inc., Celanese, Chemtura, Chindex International, Inc., Cigna, Citigroup, Inc., CNH Industrial, The Coca-Cola Company, The Cohen Group, Dell Inc., The Walt Disney Company, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, East Penn Manufacturing Co., Inc., Ecolab, Emerson, Ford Motor Company, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., The IBM Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, Mary Kay, Inc., McGraw Hill Financial, McLarty Associates, Mead Johnson Nutrition, MeadWestvaco Corporation, Merck & Co., Inc., Moody’s Corporation, Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Praxair, Inc., The Procter & Gamble Company, Thermo Fisher Scientific, The Timken Company, Towers Watson, Tyco International, UL, United Technologies Corporation, Walmart, and Westinghouse Electric Company.

The full text of the letter:

October 15, 2014
The Honorable Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

The commercial relationship between the United States and China is enormously important to our companies and the health of the American economy. Getting this commercial relationship right – by expanding the opportunities and effectively addressing the challenges – will help maintain American economic strength and leadership in the decades ahead.

Concluding a meaningful US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) should be a top priority for your administration. We applaud your administration’s success in gaining agreement from China at the Strategic & Economic Dialogue two years ago to negotiate a BIT based on the American core principles. We further noted President Xi Jinping’s statement at this year’s Strategic & Economic Dialogue to negotiate with the United States a high-standard BIT as soon as possible, and appreciate the work you and your administration did to gain that pledge.

It is now time to move ahead to conclude the treaty text negotiations and begin work in early 2015 on ensuring China includes only a narrow list of excluded sectors (the “negative list”). Investment barriers are market access barriers, plain and simple. If China can significantly reduce its negative list and open markets to American manufacturers, agriculture producers, and service providers, you will find the business community fully engaged and supportive of your leadership to gain Senate approval of the treaty. 

We urge you to make the prioritization of a high-standard BIT between the United States and China a visible part of your visit to China in November and bilateral meeting with President Xi. There are few other commercial outcomes that would gain as much support from business leaders in both the United States and China. Passage of a high-standard US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty would have a significant and lasting impact on the trajectory of the US-China commercial relationship, and create a more equitable framework to guide the relationship forward.

Sincerely,
Miles D. White
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Abbott 

Evan G. Greenberg
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
ACE Limited/ACE Group

Mark T. Bertolini
Chairman, CEO and President
Aetna

Klaus Kleinfeld
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Alcoa

Steve Van Andel
Chairman
Amway Corporation

Michael R. Splinter
Executive Chairman
Applied Materials, Inc.

Patricia A. Woertz
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Archer Daniels Midland Company

Patrick M. Prevost
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cabot Corporation

David MacLennan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cargill Inc.

David Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer
The Carlyle Group

Doug Oberhelman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 
Caterpillar Inc.

Mark C. Rohr
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Celanese

Craig A. Rogerson
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Chemtura

Roberta Lipson
Chief Executive Officer and President
Chindex International, Inc.

David Cordani
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cigna

Michael Corbat
Chief Executive Officer
Citigroup, Inc.

Richard Tobin
Chief Executive Officer
CNH Industrial

Muhtar Kent
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Coca-Cola Company

The Honorable William S. Cohen
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Cohen Group

Michael S. Dell
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Dell Inc.

Robert A. Iger
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Walt Disney Company

Andrew N. Liveris
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Dow Chemical Company 

Ellen Kullman
Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
DuPont

Daniel R. Langdon
Chief Executive Officer
East Penn Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Doug Baker
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Ecolab

David N. Farr
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Emerson

Mark Fields
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ford Motor Company

Lloyd Blankfein
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Ginni Rometty
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
IBM Corporation

Alex Gorsky
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Johnson & Johnson

David H. Long
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

David Holl
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mary Kay, Inc.

Harold McGraw, III
Chairman of the Board
McGraw Hill Financial

Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty
Chairman
McLarty Associates

P. Kasper Jakobsen
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mead Johnson Nutrition

John A. Luke, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
MeadWestvaco Corporation

Kenneth C. Frazier
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Merck & Co., Inc.

Raymond W. McDaniel
President and Chief Executive Officer
Moody’s Corporation

James P. Gorman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Morgan Stanley

Indra K. Nooyi
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
PepsiCo

Ian C. Read
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Pfizer

Stephen F. Angel
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Praxair, Inc.

A.G. Lafley
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
The Procter & Gamble Company

Marc N. Casper
President and Chief Executive Officer
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Richard G. Kyle
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Timken Company

John J. Haley
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Towers Watson

George Oliver
Chief Executive Officer
Tyco International

Keith E. Williams
President and Chief Executive Officer
UL

Louis R. Chênevert
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
United Technologies Corporation

Doug McMillon
President and Chief Executive Officer
Walmart

Danny Roderick
President and Chief Executive Officer
Westinghouse Electric Company