I Heart Dalian and China and so does Thom

NY Times' Thom Friedman is in town:

I have not been to Dalian in three years. It is not just a nice city for China. It is a beautiful city of wide avenues, skyscrapers, green spaces, software parks and universities.

Looking at the world from here, it is hard not to feel that China has spent the last six years training for the Olympics while we’ve spent ourselves into debt on iPods and Al Qaeda.

Read the rest of the article here (if you have Times Select). Thanks to mysticchildz for the link.