Wednesday   16 September   2015  / Hour 1, Block A:  Charles Burton, Brock University, in re: Xi Jinping's state visit.   China's opaque economy is failing; the tools that the Party can use are grotesques and ineffective.  Pres Obama invites Xi Jinping to a pomp-filled state dinner with a 21-gun salute, even as China engages is extremely serious cyberespionage comparable to breaking n to federal buildings and stealing data and materials.  Optics: mostly about legitimize Xi's weakening leadership in China; also, the White House said it would American databases, civilian and governmental – then decided not to.  Very bad appearance.  Obama seems to be afraid it'd affect the US-China climate agreement, of potential Chinese support anent Iranian nuclear arrangements. The recent Chinese military parade was meant to convey that China is great power equal to the US, which the Politburo seems to believe but no one else does. / Rand Paul: engage with China /  Scott Walker: cancel the dinner / Jeb Bush: cancelling dinner is a trifle but there do exist ways to make China pay.