[Ozone34]

"Rose and Friedman once again discussed how inferior American politics is to communist China..."

I was so disoriented reading this. The first thing to come to mind was "Milton & Rose would never say such a thing!"

[ken21]

>>>how inferior American politics is to communist China,

you wonder how such pukes live with themselves.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“And I was struck that it was stuck too but China had built this convention center in 8.5 months —”

And they used toxic sulfur emitting Chinese drywall. And it will probably collapse in the first storm.
Yes we want to imitate China. Not...

[Daaave]

CHARLIE ROSE: Another point about this around the corner is you went to China in 2010 to one of these World Economic Forum conferences in China.

THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Well, then I come home and Michael and I live in Bethesda, Maryland and we take the subway to work both of us often and go to the subway and the escalators there had been broken or in repair for six months each one with 21 stairs. And I was struck that it was stuck too but China had built this convention center in 8.5 months

July 29, 2011 by Daniel Yun
The bullet train crash is now seen as a fateful metaphor of bullet speed progress at the expense of safety and transparency.

Weibo has heightened China’s embarrassment with comparison of safety records in Japan and Europe, where bullet train fatalities are all but non-existent.

Too bad Friedman and Rose wasn't on this train. They seem to admire the way that the Chinese do stuff. Maybe next time.

[BBell]

Well we did build The Pentagon in 16 months. But that was a different America. In 10 years we still have not managed to rebuild the Twin Towers.

IN regard to China, I seriously doubt the Chinese would bankroll generations of an underclass of breeding welfare layabouts.

[wjcsux]

I suggest that if this A-hole loves the ChiComs so much, he ought to re-locate there!

[6SJ7]

Thomas Friedman fawning over a fascist state like China is reminisant of the “progressives” back in the 30’s fawning over Hitler’s efficiency. The bottom line is people such as Friedman want that power and can see themselves wielding power over others. Their hubris prevents them from imagining being instead on the receiving end of a dictate; just one of the “little people”.

[maggief]

Friedman's mansion:

[ponder life]

Friedman shouldn't compare China and the US when he wants to speak of how efficient China is. Rather, he should compare China to other developing nations. That would be a better comparison. And in that regard, China build circles around other developing nations.

The US and other developed nations, because infrastructure is well developed, have the luxury of haggling over public hearings, environmental studies, etc. If all of a sudden, for example, half of America's airports were destroyed, I believe Americans would plow through airport projects and quickly rebuild; expedite environmental studies, ignore the trouble makers at public hearings, and remove the red tape. There probably wouldn't even be public hearings, just public notices that an army of construction workers and all their equipment are going to show up in the area.

[Cronos]

Friedman compares communist China building a building by edict to a subway repair?