My most surreal experience during that first visit was being driven in a Cadillac at 100mph in a super highway with almost no other cars around us for miles and miles, when we suddenly ran into a horse-pulled cart transporting hay…going the opposite direction of traffic IN the highway. Thank God we didn’t hit them, but it was close.

What impresses me most these days is how the younger generation of Chinese are so in tune with their counterparts in other countries. They dress alike, use the same gadgets, watch the same sports, etc. Makes you hope for a more connected and harmonious world in the near future.

Its ironic that China even Europe appears more capitalist than the USA right now. Or at least some of the things we hear said on the news. Such as Merkel’s comments on our easy money policies. We with out cheap printed scrit money trying bail our way out. Thank god the idea of market economies took hold elsewhere. Otherwise the dream of liberty would die with the lazy Americans adoption of New York Financial dictatorship that has taken over Washington D.C.