| One of those surreal moments you never forget has | | | | Do you think that if he walked around a bit saw the |
| to be for me sitting at the Starbucks at the top of the | | | | way that China is working today, that he would be |
| Forbidden City drinking a cup of coffee while gazing | | | | agreeing with some of Friedman's theorys and try to |
| towards Mao's Mausoleum. You can't help wondering If | | | | leave it alone and let the yin and yang of the free |
| Moa was sitting next to you sipping the foam off of a | | | | market work themselves out? |
| skinny latte where would he steer the conversation | | | | If you caught him in a melancholy mood what mistakes |
| towards? | | | | might torment him the most and which things would he |
| There are so many issue's facing China some of them | | | | change if he had a time machine. What new solutions |
| old, others new, where would his passion lay today. | | | | might he try to old problems? Would he embrace or |
| Would it be the increasing population? Landownership | | | | hinder technology? |
| and the increasing wealth of the eastern city dwellers | | | | How would Moa feel about pollution and global |
| compared to the people in the country side? | | | | warming and now global dimming would he be torn |
| Technology, Iraq, North Korea, space, trade imbalances, | | | | between growth, and protecting the natural resources |
| what would he talk about? | | | | for the future generations. Would he make room in a 5 |
| What would Moa see that would surprise him, certainly | | | | year plan for development of alternative energies as a |
| a Starbucks at the top of the Forbidden City is going | | | | way to slow the use of coal and decrease the |
| to give him a little gas, but what else? Do you think | | | | growing need for oil from outside China? |
| Chairman Mao would smile at all the healthy people in | | | | In the end I think that Moa would want to talk about his |
| their Western clothes going about there day in a | | | | grand kids and how many Gold medals can China win |
| peaceful and orderly way? What would he think of the | | | | at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, after all it's just not cool |
| skyscrapers and the western style malls, with | | | | to talk business in Starbucks. |
| everyone having a cell phone attached to their ear? | | | | |