Timothy Geithner, President Barack Obama’s nominee for U.S. treasury secretary, told the Senate that he and the new administration are prepared to take a harder line in economic relations with China.

I keep watching the steady march of China towards world domination, and their currency (the yuan) getting bigger and stronger until it achieves reserve status and replaces the worthless dollar; and people around the world will say, “Fooey on the dollar!” and I will get really nervous like I do every time some dirtbag country starts getting uppity like they are going to begin paying us back for the misery we have inflicted on them, and their friends, for the last century or so.

‘Chimerica’ stocks and how to profit from companies that do their business in China has been creating a huge amount of buzz on the internet since investment guru Tom Dyson at Daily Wealth started to write about the subject.

“Chimerica stocks are Chinese companies,” says Tom. “They do business in China, with Chinese management, Chinese employees, and Chinese currency. They make products for Chinese consumers.

The key is that these Chinese companies list on US stock exchanges.

It’s the highest price ever paid for a single lot of wine, reports Reuters.

The buyer? An anonymous Chinese billionaire.

According to the report: “The anonymous Chinese entrepreneur bought a mix of vintages of Romanee Conti, a Burgundy wine and considered to be among the world’s most exclusive with only 450 cases produced each year.”

China is booming, despite the recent sell-off of Chinese stocks, but how do US investors profit from the China story without getting burnt?

While communist China is busy smashing protests in occupied Tibet, the country’s currency, the renminbi, is making record gains agains the US dollar.