China

According to CNNMoney.com, there is growing speculation that when General Motors goes public, there could be heavy interest from Chinese companies in buying a controlling share of the iconic American automaker.

“China is about to leave everyone behind in a big way,” C. H. Kwan, a senior fellow at the Nomura Institute of Capital Market Research, based in Tokyo, told The New York Times.

South Korea, Japan, and China have predicated their economic growth on creating and maintaining a currency “peg” against the United States.