The US versus China: Too Many Hamburgers

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times has been one of the leading voices crying out that America is in danger of losing the economic/technological race to China. Today he has a piece that repeats many themes he has been harping on. He notes how the Chinese see Americans as a people who always expect that they will be first, but have "eaten too many hamburgers." He also suggests that the "can do" attitude that surrounded the Apollo program is gone in America, but is present in China. China has many problems and their authoritarian structure is certainly one that we wouldn't want to copy. But it will be interesting to see how the United States responds over the next years to the challenge of the rise of China.