美國《紐約時報》震撼對比中美，轟動美國白宮高層！
美國《紐約時報》著名專欄作家湯瑪斯·弗裡德曼寫了一篇文章。題 為“中美這七年”，刊登在《紐約時報》上，震驚了美國白宮！
他寫道：當我坐在中國場館的座位上，欣賞上數千名中國舞蹈演員、 鼓手、歌手以及踩著高蹺的雜技演員魔幻般的精彩演出時，我不由得 回想起過去這七年中美兩國的不同經歷： 中國一直在忙於各種場會的各種工作，而我們忙著對付“基地”組織 （恐怖分子）;他們一直在建設更好的體育館、地鐵、機場、道路以 及公園，而我們一直在建造更好的金屬探測器、悍馬軍車和無人駕駛 偵察機……
差異已經開始顯現。
你可以比較一下紐約骯髒陳舊的拉瓜地亞機場和上海造型優美的國際
我認為，作為一個現代國家，中國接受了現代國家主權和人權的主要
人口，中國發展模式的一個特點就是：學習+創新+巨大人口產生
智利是相對發達的發展中國家，但2010年一場大地震，GDP就
對於絕大多數國家來說，產業升級往往意味著產業遷移到外國，而中
文化，過去三十多年的中西文化碰撞，沒有使多數中國人喪失文化自
中國人本文化衍生出來的餐飲文化、養生文化、休閒文化也是其他文
我們有些人總是擔心中國人缺少宗教情懷。其實只要稍微熟悉一點世
經濟，中國傳統意義上的經濟學，嚴格講不是“市場經濟學”，而是
中國今天的政黨是歷史上統一的儒家執政集團傳統的延續，而不是代
我曾遇到美國學者質疑中國政權的合法性，我問他為什麼不首先質疑
那麼，我們是否可以用中國“選賢任能”的理念來質疑西方政·權合
中國歷史合法性的最大特點就是“選賢任能”的政治傳統和“民心向
他們學習了西方，已經建立了強大的現代政府體系，但同時又擁有自
在政治層面，西方許多人也想當然地認為隨著中國中產階層的壯大，
坦率地說，中國今天所展現出來的一切，絕對不是“先進”和“落後
這就是美國專欄作家湯瑪斯·弗裡德曼寫的“中美這七年”的文章。 非常值得每一個中國人認真看一看，好好思索一下……
A Biblical Seven Years - Thomas L. Friedman
Beijing
After attending the spectacular closing ceremony at the Beijing Olympics and feeling the vibrations from hundreds of Chinese drummers pulsating in my own chest, I was tempted to conclude two things: “Holy mackerel, the energy coming out of this country is unrivaled.” And, two: “We are so cooked. Start teaching your kids Mandarin.”
However, I’ve learned over the years not to over-interpret any two-week event. Olympics don’t change history. They are mere snapshots — a country posing in its Sunday bests for all the world too see. But, as snapshots go, the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful — and it’s one that Americans need to reflect upon this election season.
China did not build the magnificent $43 billion infrastructure for these games, or put on the unparalleled opening and closing ceremonies, simply by the dumb luck of discovering oil. No, it was the culmination of seven years of national investment, planning, concentrated state power, national mobilization and hard work.
Seven years ... Seven years ... Oh, that’s right. China was awarded these Olympic Games on July 13, 2001 — just two months before 9/11.
As I sat in my seat at the Bird’s Nest, watching thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at the closing ceremony, I couldn’t help but reflect on how China and America have spent the last seven years: China has been preparing for the Olympics; we’ve been preparing for Al Qaeda. They’ve been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armored Humvees and pilotless drones.
The difference is starting to show. Just compare arriving at La Guardia’s dumpy terminal in New York City and driving through the crumbling infrastructure into Manhattan with arriving at Shanghai’s sleek airport and taking the 220-mile-per-hour magnetic levitation train, which uses electromagnetic propulsion instead of steel wheels and tracks, to get to town in a blink.
Then ask yourself: Who is living in the third world country?
Yes, if you drive an hour out of Beijing, you meet the vast dirt-poor third world of China. But here’s what’s new: The rich parts of China, the modern parts of Beijing or Shanghai or Dalian, are now more state of the art than rich America. The buildings are architecturally more interesting, the wireless networks more sophisticated, the roads and trains more efficient and nicer. And, I repeat, they did not get all this by discovering oil. They got it by digging inside themselves.
I realize the differences: We were attacked on 9/11; they were not. We have real enemies; theirs are small and mostly domestic. We had to respond to 9/11 at least by eliminating the Al Qaeda base in Afghanistan and investing in tighter homeland security. They could avoid foreign entanglements. Trying to build democracy in Iraq, though, which I supported, was a war of choice and is unlikely to ever produce anything equal to its huge price tag.
But the first rule of holes is that when you’re in one, stop digging. When you see how much modern infrastructure has been built in China since 2001, under the banner of the Olympics, and you see how much infrastructure has been postponed in America since 2001, under the banner of the war on terrorism, it’s clear that the next seven years need to be devoted to nation-building in America.
We need to finish our business in Iraq and Afghanistan as quickly as possible, which is why it is a travesty that the Iraqi Parliament has gone on vacation while 130,000 U.S. troops are standing guard. We can no longer afford to postpone our nation-building while Iraqis squabble over whether to do theirs.
A lot of people are now advising Barack Obama to get dirty with John McCain. Sure, fight fire with fire. That’s necessary, but it is not sufficient.
Obama got this far because many voters projected onto him that he could be the leader of an American renewal. They know we need nation-building at home now — not in Iraq, not in Afghanistan, not in Georgia, but in America. Obama cannot lose that theme.
He cannot let Republicans make this election about who is tough enough to stand up to Russia or bin Laden. It has to be about who is strong enough, focused enough, creative enough and unifying enough to get Americans to rebuild America. The next president can have all the foreign affairs experience in the world, but it will be useless, utterly useless, if we, as a country, are weak.
Obama is more right than he knows when he proclaims that this is “our” moment, this is “our” time. But it is our time to get back to work on the only home we have, our time for nation-building in America. I never want to tell my girls — and I’m sure Obama feels the same about his — that they have to go to China to see the future.
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