Source: PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 5/4/21


One day in the late 1990s, I had the good fortune to witness an extraordinary dialogue in Beijing. A group of students from Tsinghua University, China's Harvard, was exchanging views with some very senior American businessmen. At one point one of the Americans asked the students about their ambitions for their country. Without hesitation, unemotionally and in perfect English, a student responded that he wanted China to be "the most powerful country in the world."

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