China is a amazing country. I went there to visit a friend that was working for advertising agency in Shanghai. He said that working as a Ex-pat made him more patriotic about being a US citizen because he was witnessing first hand how China is going to surpass US as a superpower.
I was there only 10 days and I came to the same conclusion. The places that I visited were awesome. I was riding on the fastest operating High Speed Rail
in the world traveling to Hangzhou and Chinese fighter jets where taking off overhead. The airports, train stations, subways, architecture and cities were beautiful. The World Expo The food and the shopping was amazing in Shanghai.
I was able to make the sky look less smoggy in this pic.
If it was not for all these bikes traffic would grind to a halt. There is no way for cars to fit in such a busy city, which is bad news for China because, the growing middle class is adding 13.8 million cars in one year.
Off course I saw there dark side. The poverty, beautiful places that are blanketed in dark smog, cooking oil sourced from the sewer, but the positives trump the negatives. Complaints about CARB and the EPA are asinine after you visit China. WAKE UP people.
When I was there, I did not visit any of these ghost cities, but I did see some overbuilding. The Pudong airport had at least a 1/4 mile of empty international terminal.
I hope China does go through a major adjustment before they waste any more resources. China has bankrupted a bunch of US companies when Chinese Government Subsidies flooded the market with commodities. One example is the solar industry. My take is that growing tech industries should be in the US unless you want to see the quality of life in the US go down.
