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Real Madrid linked with Ruud return as Mourinho gets his wish

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has revealed that the Spanish club's bosses have relented and will seek to sign him a new striker after all.

Mourinho had initially been told that he could not replace Gonzalo Higuain, who could miss the rest of this season after having back surgery.

France international Karim Benzema has been filling in for the Argentine, but Mourinho wants more options as Real seek to stop Barcelona retaining the Spanish title and also to win the European Champions League for the first time since 2002.

"I am sticking to my beliefs. I think it would be good to have another forward for what is left of the season," Mourinho told Madrid's website ahead of Sunday's trip to bottom club Almeria.

It is not just any club which have expressed interest, it is Real. They are the only club which can make me change my mind
--Ruud van Nistelrooy

"The club is looking into the possibility of signing a forward, which pleases me to no end."

Real have been linked with a move to bring veteran Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy back to the Santiago Bernabeu, and the player's German club Hamburg confirmed the La Liga side's interest on its website on Saturday night.

Hamburg also referred to comments the 34-year-old made after scoring the only goal against Schalke, who this season signed another former Real striker in Raul.

"The reports are correct. It has been a strange week, it has been hard to concentrate and I am just glad it worked out," Van Nistelrooy, who left Madrid a year ago, said in quotes carried by the AFP news agency.

"We just need to see what happens in the next few days, but it is not easy for me. It is not just any club which have expressed interest, it is Real. They are the only club which can make me change my mind."

Real trail Barcelona by two points ahead of the halfway point of the Spanish season, with the Catalan club hosting Malaga on Sunday.

Third-placed Villarreal won 4-2 at home to Osasuna on Saturday to be 10 points adrift of Barcelona.

The highlight of the match was a superb goal from halfway by Ruben Cani that put Villarreal 2-1 ahead.

Espanyol joined fourth-placed Valencia on 34 points with a 2-1 win at Sevilla as striker Jose Callejon twice beat the offside trap to score in each half, doubling his tally for this season.

Sevilla substitute Alvaro Negredo scored in time added on despite an apparent handball, but his team stayed in 10th place.

Athletic Bilbao moved up to sixth place with a 2-1 win at home to Racing Santander following goals inside the first 10 minutes from Javi Martinez and Iker Muniain.

Ivan Bolado reduced the deficit with 15 minutes to play, but his fellow striker Pedro Munitis was sent off as the match came to an ill-tempered close with five players booked at the end.

Ninth-placed Getafe crashed to a 4-0 defeat at home to Real Sociedad, who ended a run of four defeats as Mikel Aranburu scored a late double.

Real Zaragoza moved up to third from bottom above Levante after beating their relegation rivals 1-0 as Gabi Fernandez scored the winner on halftime for the home team.

Sporting Gijon joined Zaragoza on 16 points, with a better goal difference, after beating Hercules 2-0 thanks to first-half goals from David Barral and Nacho Cases.

JPMorgan profit surges despite mortgage hit

JPMorgan Chase posted a stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter profit, even as it bolstered its reserves for mortgage-related legal expenses for the second straight quarter.

The New York-based bank made $4.8 billion, or $1.12 a share, for the latest quarter. That is up from a profit of 74 cents a share a year earlier and compares with the Wall Street analyst consensus estimate of 99 cents a share.

JPMorgan (JPM), the No. 2 U.S. lender by assets after Bank of America (BAC), said the latest quarter's profit was boosted by its decision to release $3 billion in loan loss reserves on its card services and non-impaired loan portfolios. Offsetting those gains, the bank added $2 billion to its reserves for impaired loans acquired in the 2008 acquisition of Washington Mutual, and boosted its litigation reserves by $1.5 billion.

All told, the one-time items tied to reserve changes and securities gains boosted latest-quarter profits by 12 cents a share -- accounting for the lion's share of the margin by which JPMorgan's profit beat analyst estimates.

"Credit trends in our credit card and wholesale businesses continued to improve," CEO Jamie Dimon said in a Friday morning press release. "In our mortgage business, while charge-offs and delinquencies have improved, credit costs still remain at abnormally high levels and continue to be a significant drag on our returns."

JPMorgan shares have been flat for the past year after far outperforming most other banks during the financial meltdown of 2008 (see chart, right). They were flat at $44.45 in premarket trading.

The report comes as investors mull over a tightening bank profit picture. JPMorgan and rivals such as Wells Fargo (WFC) and Citi (C) have padded their bottom lines in recent quarters by releasing loan loss reserves they took during the financial meltdown back into earnings.

But Wall Street has taken to focusing on what the banks will look like a year or two down the road and how they might change. Among other challenges, the banks must replace lost profit centers such as the credit and debit card fees they used to such great effect in recent years to gouge their hapless customers.

Analysts will be listening in on JPMorgan Chase's call, beginning at 9 a.m. EDT, for Dimon's take on that and other issues, including his latest comments on when the bank might get clearance to start paying a bigger dividend.

"Incremental guidance on how banks plan to navigate the current challenges, including the low interest rate environment, slow loan growth and the negative effects of regulatory reform, will be the focal points in the quarter," Credit Suisse analyst Moshe Orenbuch wrote this week in a note to clients. "Any additional details as to potential re-pricing efforts, product innovation or offsets, particularly in consumer related businesses, would be an incremental positive."

Among the key issues in the call will be the bank's decision to add $1.5 billion to its litigation reserves, in a move JPMorgan said was "predominantly for mortgage-related matters." Dimon previously shrugged off the mortgage putback crisis in October's earnings announcement even as the bank added $1 billion to those reserves.

Inuit lives and diets change as ice shifts

Climate change is altering diets and lifestyles among Inuit people, according to a scientist who has studied the human face of global warming in the Arctic.

Barry Smit, a professor at the University of Guelph, Canada, has spent five years leading research projects into how melting ice and changes in wildlife habits are impacting the lives and livelihoods of far northern communities.

Among his most striking findings was that increasing difficulty in hunting for traditional food was leading to much more junk food in the Inuit diet.

"People looking at the health of the Inuit have demonstrated that the traditional diet, which is almost exclusively raw meat, is in fact very healthy for them," Smit said. "But because of the new difficulties hunting, people are adapting their diets to what's available in the stores.

"The stores only have food that's easy to transport and doesn't perish, so there are no vegetables. The young people are increasingly eating highly processed junk food, so we are seeing more teeth problems and obesity."

The difficulties in hunting are caused by shifting ice and changing migratory patterns among animals such as seals, walrus, types of whales and polar bears, which form a large part of the traditional diet, Smit said.

He also noted that the shifting ice made hunting and traveling more dangerous.

Smit said: "Ice is fundamental to their livelihoods and culture. Most of their activities involve traveling on the ice.

The call of the Dolphin Mother

Editor's note: Erika Christakis, M.P.H., M.Ed., is an early childhood educator, former preschool director and college administrator. She is a parent of three teenagers and lives with 400 Harvard undergraduates as a residential housemaster at Harvard College.

(CNN) -- Have you heard a Tiger Mother's prescription for superior parenting?

As described by Amy Chua, a Yale law professor, in her recent and controversial book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," it includes relentless rote practice and generous doses of threats, shame and occasional physical punishment, yielding a successful person who takes pride in her accomplishments.

No play dates or trombone lessons or self-discovery for these kids: just an ultra-lean diet of school work and musical practice, a life stripped of the influences of personal choice, popular culture or peers.

That's how Tiger Mothers do it. Are they superior?

I couldn't say, because I am a Dolphin Mother.

Dolphin Mothers are flexible and playful with their children. As higher mammals, we know that our offspring learn through play, and we make time in their day for this important cognitive and social task. Dolphin Mothers also have a well-developed communication system. We can recognize the unique voice of our child in a sea of thousands of other children.

We can also clearly communicate our expectations, values and love to our children. And we are acutely tuned to their needs and feelings. This is especially helpful as our children go out into a world full of dangers and choices.

Dolphin Mothers benefit from complex social relationships with other Dolphin Parents that give us relief from the backbreaking labor of child-rearing while also teaching us new ways to guide our children's development.

Some of us care for our young full-time, while others depend on our pod for daily support. But all of us Dolphin Mothers value collaboration and welcome the presence of caring adults in our children's lives.

Dolphin Mothers protect our young but also encourage their independence. Our sharp hearing allows us to monitor our kids easily even when they are testing the waters on their own, so we are not too anxious about the occasional exposure to a bad influence.

Banksy's Disney 'execution' tops $120,000 at auction

London, England (CNN) -- Baloo, Mowgli and King Louie of the Apes from Disney film "The Jungle Book" all feature in a print by anonymous graffiti artist Banksy that sold for over $120,000 at auction Tuesday.

The work, "Save or Delete Jungle Book," went under the hammer alongside works by other urban artists as part of an Urban Art sale at Bonhams auction house in London.

The image was originally commissioned by Greenpeace for a poster campaign highlighting the problem of deforestation, with the characters transposed onto an image of a devastated forest. But the posters were never circulated due to copyright issues with Disney.

"Save or Delete Jungle Book," the start lot, achieved £78,000 ($122,000), the highest sale price at the auction. The other notable sales were both Banksy pieces, "Portrait of an Artist" (1998) which went for £60,000 ($93,500) and a canvas depicting a tanks that sold for £42,000 ($65,500).

These high prices indicate Banksy's continuing popularity. The anarchic street artist, who numbers Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp among his many fans, is famous for stenciled graffiti on buildings and walls across the globe, including the controversial West Bank barrier in Israel.

Bonhams contemporary art specialist Gareth Williams says the high prices also show the healthy state of the market for urban art, which he defines as a more permanent version of street art.

"I think when the recession kicked in, it was a difficult time for all contemporary art, but urban art, because it was such a new market, was badly affected initially," Williams said. The market has "found its feet, it's got steadier" since then, according to Williams.

Bonhams was the first auction house in the UK to mount a sale of urban art in 2008 and has since staged two more urban art auctions. This was the fourth sale for the house.

The sale included many vibrant works by a number of well-known street artists -- including American artist Shepard Fairey's iconic "Change" poster for the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. But Banksy was the big ticket.

"I think he appeals to a huge cross-section of people," Williams said. "You've got contemporary art collectors who love his work, and he also appeals to people who perhaps haven't really purchased contemporary art before."

And Banksy's anonymity, Williams said, helps to maintain a healthy interest in the artist and his cheeky and often anarchic imagery.

Other works in the sale included a spray-paint-on-board work by U.S. graffiti artist Futura 2000, part of a set for a 1983 concert by punk rockers The Clash; and a three-meter long suspended shark made out of reclaimed metal by artist Tony D'Amico.

Williams said that Banksy, alongside other street artists, regularly makes commercial work in addition to his street-based projects. But Banksy's more commercial work has not been immune to criticism.

Art critic Matthew Collings wrote in London newspaper The Times in 2008 after a previous Bonhams' urban art sale: "What can you get at the auction? You can be the owner of Banksy's Laugh Now, in stencil paint on canvas, for only £40,000. It shows a chimp with a sign round its neck that reads: 'You can laugh but one day we'll be in charge.'

What would you really be buying? A status symbol -- the work has no value as art. But owning it would make you modern and clever. Or stupid. It's a fine line."

Williams says that although it is created for a commercial environment, urban art is still connected to its roots in the street, both through the use of the techniques employed (such as stencil spray painting and wheat pasting) as well as through its politicized sensibility.

He added that street art is an ephemeral art form that disappears as quickly as it appears, and that "urban art is an attempt to redress this by leaving a more permanent legacy."

Art critic Francesca Gavin, who writes on graffiti and street art, said that making commercial art is simply a way for street artists to survive financially.

And while he may have proven himself to be a sound investment at auction, in the end, she said, "Banksy's appeal will always be that he appears to be sticking his tongue out to the establishment.

"Something that, I think, might seem very desirable even to the most straight-laced individual."

U.S.-Israel Tested Worm Linked to Iran Atom Woes

WASHINGTON -- Israel has tested a computer worm believed to have sabotaged Iran's nuclear centrifuges and slowed its ability to develop an atomic weapon, The New York Times reported Saturday.

In what the Times described as a joint Israeli-U.S. effort to undermine Iran's nuclear ambitions, it said the tests of the destructive Stuxnet worm had occurred over the past two years at the heavily guarded Dimona complex in the Negev desert.

The newspaper cited unidentified intelligence and military experts familiar with Dimona who said Israel had spun centrifuges virtually identical to those at Iran's Natanz facility, where Iranian scientists are struggling to enrich uranium.

"To check out the worm, you have to know the machines," an American expert on nuclear intelligence told the newspaper. "The reason the worm has been effective is that the Israelis tried it out."

Western leaders suspect Iran's nuclear program is a cover to build atomic weapons, but Tehran says it is aimed only at producing electricity.

Iran's centrifuges have been plagued by breakdowns since a rapid expansion of enrichment in 2007 and 2008, and security experts have speculated its nuclear program may have been targeted in a state-backed attack using Stuxnet.

In November, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that malicious software had created "problems" in some of Iran's uranium enrichment centrifuges, although he said the problems had been resolved.

The Times said the worm was the most sophisticated cyber-weapon ever deployed and appeared to have been the biggest factor in setting back Iran's nuclear march. Its sources said it caused the centrifuges to spin wildly out of control and that a fifth of them had been wiped out.

It added it was not clear the attacks were over and that some experts believed the Stuxnet code contained the seeds for more versions and assaults.

The retiring chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, Meir Dagan, said recently that Iran's nuclear program had been set back and that Tehran would not be able to build an atomic bomb until at least 2015. U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have not disputed Dagan's view.

Neither Clinton nor Dagan mentioned Stuxnet or any other cyber-warfare possibly used against the Iranian program.

Israel has voiced alarm over a nuclear Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said only the threat of military action will prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb.

Israel itself is widely believed to have built more than 200 atomic warheads at its Dimona reactor but it maintains an official policy of "ambiguity" over whether it is a nuclear power.

Any delays in Iran's enrichment campaign could buy more time for efforts to find a diplomatic solution to its stand-off with six world powers over the nature of its nuclear activities.

U.S. and Israeli officials refused to comment officially on the worm, the newspaper said.

Before shooting, suspect embarked on chaotic night

TUCSON, Ariz. – He wandered through the dark streets of his hometown, meandering from one store to another on a furious all-night excursion as he prepared what authorities say were the final steps in taking revenge on a world from which he'd become progressively alienated.

Jared Loughner checked into a down-and-out motel. He picked up photos showing him holding a Glock 19 while wearing only a bright red G-string. He bought ammunition on one of three trips to two different Walmarts.

He called a high-school pot-smoking buddy, ran away from his father into a cactus-dotted desert and updated his MySpace profile to say, "Goodbye friends."

Michelle Martinez ran into Loughner during his rambling odyssey. She and some friends were hanging out in the neighborhood when a sullen figure emerged from the darkness in a black hooded sweatshirt and startled them. Loughner picked his way through the group rather than walk around them, offering a deep, distant "What's up?" He then quickened his pace and disappeared into the darkness.

"I had a feeling he was thinking about something," said Martinez, who knew Loughner from their school days. "It was just kind of weird."

The encounter epitomizes Loughner's final hours as he became increasingly unhinged, culminating, authorities say, with him opening fire on a crowd of people at an event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Six people were killed and 13 were wounded amid a barrage of bullets from a Glock 19.

Officials do not know what pushed the 22-year-old mentally disturbed loner over the edge, but interviews, records and a police chronology released Friday provide a fuller picture of his movements that in many ways reflect his scattered mind.

It would all play out within a few miles from the modest, single-story home where he grew up and lived all his life — save for a brief attempt he made at living in an apartment by himself.

The chaotic night, according to the official law enforcement chronology, began at 11:35 p.m. when he dropped off a roll of 35 mm film at a Walgreens.

In the next hour he stopped at a Circle K gas station/convenience store and checked into a Motel 6, a $37.99-a-night spot popular with truckers near a Long John Silver's and other fast-food restaurants.

If he slept at all that night, it wasn't for long.

At 1:45 a.m., he was back outside his parents' home, where he ran into Martinez and her friends.

At about 2 a.m., Loughner called an old friend, Bryce Tierney. They had been confidants in high school but hadn't talked for months — another in a series of friends with whom Loughner severed ties amid his increasingly bizarre behavior.

Loughner used to bang the drums in Tierney's garage while his friend jammed on the guitar. They used to talk philosophy, about how the modern world was draining people of individualism. They got high, as police found out when they pulled the two over in September 2007 and Tierney admitted they smoked a joint in a van on the way back from a convenience store.

Early Saturday, Tierney was up watching a real-life ghost chasers show on TV. When his cell phone rang, the incoming number was listed as blocked, so he didn't answer.

Tierney picked up the message immediately. It had a melancholy tinge: "Hey Bryce, it's Jared. We had some good times together. Peace out."

After the call, Loughner headed back to the Walgreens, where — at 2:19 a.m. — he picked up the developed photos. And 15 minutes later, he stopped to make more purchases at yet another convenience store.

At 4:12 a.m. Loughner was at a computer keyboard in an unknown location, typing a farewell bulletin on his MySpace page — "Goodbye friends." Authorities said the photo included in that posting was from the shots developed at Walgreens hours earlier.

After one additional stop, at another Circle K, Loughner began his quest for ammo. His first stop, a Walmart between his house and the scene of the shooting, doesn't sell bullets before 7 a.m. It was only 6:12 a.m. He returned at 7:04 a.m., but left the store without making a purchase.

He then drove 5 miles west to a Walmart superstore, where he purchased 9 mm ammunition and a black, backpack style diaper bag. It was now 7:27 a.m.

Just three minutes later, he was pulled over for running a red light in his 1969 dark gray Chevy Nova.

Loughner was cooperative, and the officer from the Arizona Game and Fish Department took his driver's license and vehicle registration information. Loughner had no outstanding warrants and was let go with a warning. And without a search.

The only thing the officer saw in the car was fast-food wrappers.

Around 8 a.m., Loughner had returned home. And there was his father, Randy, who had questions for his son.

The confrontation happened in the driveway.

The son pulled a black bag from the trunk of the Nova; Randy Loughner demanded to know what was going on.

"The father went out and said, 'What's that?' and he mumbled something and took off," Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said.

Loughner was desperate to escape. He hustled toward the corner where he used to catch the school bus with his neighbor Martinez, then hung a right and a quick left before entering a sandy wash that runs behind the houses on the other side of his street, North Soledad Avenue.

Winding his way through the desert scrub and cactus, Loughner arrived at a dry tributary 300 feet later that dead-ends into a bigger wash. His father jumped into his truck to catch up with his son.

But his son had disappeared from view.

Jared Loughner was alone again.

The only clue about the desert pursuit that has turned up is the black bag recovered Thursday at the intersection of the two washes. Inside, they found the same caliber of ammunition Loughner bought at Walmart.

Loughner's escape route took him up the wash, past the back of a post office, to where the dry stream bed opens into a broader swath of desert. In this part of suburbia, brush-choked expanses are never far away.

Eventually, Loughner returned to the Circle K he'd visited three hours earlier.

He was carrying two extended pistol clips that hold up to 31 bullets, along with two 15-round magazines, a four-inch buck knife, a Visa card, his driver's license and cash in a plastic bag.

Authorities said a cab picked him up at 9:41 a.m.

His destination was a Safeway store — and a violent confrontation with Gabrielle Giffords.

US pomp meant to improve tone of China relations

BEIJING – Chinese leader Hu Jintao is being feted in Washington this week with a lavish state banquet at the White House and other pomp usually reserved for close friends and allies — all intended to improve the tone of relations between a risen, more assertive and prosperous China and the U.S. superpower in a tenuous economic recovery.

The shaky trust between the United States and China has been eroding recently because of an array of issues — currency policies and trade barriers, nuclear proliferation and North Korea, and both sides seem to recognize the need to recalibrate relations.

The U.S. is one of China's biggest markets, with $380 billion in annual trade largely in Beijing's favor. Washington increasingly needs Beijing's help in managing world troubles, from piracy off Africa to Iran's nuclear program and reinvigorating the world economy.

"It is absolutely critical for the two sides to be setting a tone that says 'hang on a second, we are committed to an effective, positive relationship,'" said Center for Strategic and International Studies scholar Charles Freeman, a former trade negotiator in the George W. Bush administration.

The state banquet President Barack Obama is hosting will be Hu's first. In the days before his visit, senior officials from both countries have spoken publicly in favor of better ties.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a speech Friday that the countries needed to manage their conflicts but their shared interests were so entwined as to constitute entanglement.

"History teaches us that the rise of new powers often ushers in periods of conflict and uncertainty," Clinton said. "Indeed, on both sides of the Pacific, we do see trepidation about the rise of China and the future of the U.S.-China relationship. We both have much more to gain from cooperation than from conflict."

Chinese officials have emphasized what they see as common concerns while acknowledging the complexity of the relationship.

"When the relationship is strained we need to bear in mind the larger picture and not allow any individual issue to disrupt our overall cooperation," Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said in a speech Friday.

Such maxims, however, don't apply to issues China defines as its "core interests," including Taiwan, Tibet, and the overarching authority of the Communist Party. That's a condition Hu's visit won't change.

Hu, whose four-day trip starts Tuesday, is expected to talk up China's intended peaceful rise in a speech to business leaders and opinion-makers in Washington on Thursday and to highlight the benefits of China's market and investment when visiting Chicago.

Aware of China's plummeting image in American opinion, Chinese Foreign Ministry functionaries have in recent weeks been looking for ways to make the usually stiff Hu, and China as a country, appear more human, something akin to reformist patriarch Deng Xiaoping's donning a 10-gallon hat in Houston in 1979 just after the opening of diplomatic relations.

For the protocol-obsessed Chinese leadership, a highlight of the visit will be Wednesday's state banquet — an honor denied Hu on his last trip to the White House in 2006. President George W. Bush thought state banquets should be reserved for allies and like-minded powers and instead gave Hu a lunch. Even worse, a member of Falun Gong, the spiritual movement banned by China, disrupted Hu and Bush's joint appearance, and an announcer incorrectly called China "The Republic of China," the formal name of democratically ruled Taiwan.

In this visit, no major agreements are expected. Talks over a joint statement ran aground until last-minute negotiations in Beijing last week. But the shared recognition to put things right and the bumpy relations of the last year augur for a better outcome.

The recent disputes make the summit more necessary than ever, said Shi Yinhong, professor of international relations at Beijing's Renmin University.

"If you look back to relations over the last year, any progress is significant," he said.

A successful visit also stands to raise Hu's standing domestically as he heads toward retirement late next year and seeks to place his political proteges in positions of influence. "A demonstration that Hu can handle the U.S. well and show that China is now well respected by Washington should help Hu to consolidate his legacy," said Oxford University China scholar Steve Tsang.

Still more difficult will be stopping the larger drift in relations amid the countries' changing fortunes. Beijing feels its economic, military and diplomatic strength entitles it to more deference while Washington tries to shore up its superpower authority, forging alliances and ties with other countries amid the changing global order.

While the U.S. is weighted down by high unemployment, massive budget deficits and sluggish growth, China has roared ahead, with the economy expanding 9.6 percent in the third quarter of last year.

China now holds the world's largest foreign currency reserves at $2.85 trillion and a major chunk of U.S. government debt. At current rates, economists estimate China will overtake the U.S. as the world's largest economy within 20 years, possibly by the end of this decade. That transition could be bumpy, with China's authoritarian one-party communist political system and sense of historical grievance setting it at odds with the democratic West.

Feeling its oats, Beijing has largely rebuffed U.S. appeals for help in reining in bellicose North Korea, curbing Iran's nuclear program and faster appreciation of China's currency and dismantling of trade barriers. Chinese officials and the nationalistic state-run media have criticized Washington's renewed attention to Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, its arms sales to Taiwan and its continued naval patrols in the Yellow and South China seas as attempts to constrain China's influence in its backyard.

Chinese officials have accused the U.S. of orchestrating the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. And just last week, Chinese military commanders greeted U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates' offer for closer military dialogue by sending a prototype for a new stealth fighter on its first test-flight.

In recent months, about the only thing the two seem to have agreed on is that the U.S. and China did not have enough common ground to form a Group of 2, or "G-2", to solve the world's troubles.

The U.S.-China relationship "is as important as any bilateral relationship in the world," Clinton said Friday. "But there is no such thing as a G-2. Both of our countries reject that concept."