“Challenge and opportunity always come together . . .

. . . under certain conditions, one could be transformed into the other.”
- Hu Jintao, President, People's Republic of China

China is positioning itself to come back stronger than ever after the crisis:
"The country is using its nearly $600 billion economic stimulus package to make its companies better able to compete in markets at home and abroad, to retrain migrant workers on an immense scale and to rapidly expand subsidies for research and development."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/business/worldbusiness/17compete.html