Obama in China

   Barak Hussein Obama (you may have heard of him) is visiting China.  Mostly he'll be kissing the toes of our majority debt holders. This seems like a sensible enough action to take with the people who hold the strings to your proverbial purse.
   It is, however, a break with the foreign policy of his predecessors.  Bush and Clinton before him both picked over bones with China.  Clinton famously challenged China's questionable human rights policies and Bush accused the Chinese government of manipulating their currency to devalue American currency while strengthening their's.
   Some people see what Obama is doing as conceding power of one superpower to another; many have compared it the Europeans handing power to the USA.  I wonder why Americans are so obsessed with being the best.  I understand that our capitolist society creates a cutthroat mentality that those who aren't finishing first, are inferior, but we can certainly accomplish just as much good in the world, probably more, if we stop caring about being powerful. 
   I think that our largest concern with this visit shouldn't be power plays, it should be about getting human rights for the Chinese Citizens, isn't the reason we love our power because we love to spread freedom.  I think we should use the power that we have left to convince the Chinese to adapt to the world that they are about to takeover as a superpower.  They need to update human policy and environmental policy. 
   Obama may have said that a free internet strengthens a  country rather than weakening it, to me, it seems that the first well received American President in a long time, should use his influence to help the over one billion exploited citizens of China.