@pdenlinger (Paul Denlinger) — is this your man for an absolutely honest two cents on everything about how the US is going to hell? Either that, or Paul Denlinger is one of the Chinese Twittersphere's most interesting and insightful tweeps. Either he's on about the US economy, or he's on about world politics.

With Paul, there's no end as to where the interview takes you. Twitter pessimism? The man doesn't think so. Twitter realism? That's more like Paul. And yet, at every Beijing tweetup, Paul shows his less doom-inclined side by making you "refresh!" all of the most interesting tweets coming out of the Jing...