Today we went to Shanghai Daily and talked with one of the editorial writers there. He was really candid and insightful about the news industry in his country and ours. My favorite quote: “2000 years ago China was more open minded than America.” Does that still fall in the category of “older than America,” Peter?
After the newspaper trip, we got back on our tour bus and drove an hour to a car manufacturing plant so we could see a China factory in action. Turns out: they weren’t actually open today. It was a company holiday. So we got to walk through an enormous empty car factory and see some guys mopping the floors. I couldn’t do much but laugh, it was so ridiculous. And sort of par for the course on these group tours. Unbelievable.
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