The Rise of the Dragon

I was eating dinner with a friend of mine from Guangzhou, China in late November and he was telling me that he thought China needed to continue to emulate the US as an economic role-model.  This despite all of the roller-coaster turmoil in the US economic sector.  (Remember this was in late November!)

This friend is a very educated man and I strongly respect his opinion and insight, but I have done a lot of thinking about this lately.  I remember when the US stock market dropped 97,000 points (or something like that) in a week, the big story line on CNN and all the other news stations was how the older generation was “in big trouble” but hopefully the younger generation would learn a lesson and bounce back from this better for the beating.

I really like this philosophy because if “the younger generation” doesn’t learn from the struggles we are going through as a nation, we won’t deserve to be anyones role-model.  Oh, plus I am a part of that younger generation and I hate to lose!