With its diverse portfolio of business and finance units, including the nation’s largest nonbank financial institution, G.E.’s latest report presented a glimpse of expectations for US economy as it recovers from the downturn, and for the potential of global markets where the company is aggressively looking around for opportunities. Witness China where it is prepared to sell advanced avionics even if it transfers technology to China, a tranfer that can be used to hurt US commercial and military interests. “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them,”Lenin said.