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Chuck:
Unless you are a steak and potatoes guy it's hard to have a bad meal.
Bouvier Resoundly second that! Beijing has excellent restaurants, with a little care, you can sample excellent regional foods from just about anywhere in China. The food in Chinese restraunts in USA is seldom comparable. FYI, if neither you or your guide can identify the food, it is probably tofu in one of its thousand disguises. Niklas
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With China, its trade or war.
No other country can keep their busy little newly found capitalist hands as happy as we.
A bad partner, is better than an enemy.
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Chuck, These hints are from family  Trade your $ for Ren Min Bi at the hotel, the shops outside will not be as fair. Site seeing: Great Wall - 8th Big Spot (or Landmark), the most crowded but the widest part of the wall, and there's 2 or 3 other spots that are further away. North Sea Imperial Park, a beautiful park within the city Shopping Famous intersection for shopping for trinkets: Liu Li District (or Factory). Friendship Stores don't suck. Beijing Duck Chuen Gui Dai Beijing Duck, (sounds more like Chuen Gai Da) ask for the main restaurant Enjoy and travel safe!
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Now it's Beijing Duck? I thought it was still "Peking Duck"?
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I dunno! the correct spelling is 北京 I like draft beer. You like draught beer?  
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Just back from Beijing today. Did the Wall, Fobid City, Tin Square, and Wangfujing (shopping) street. We hit the place some of you recommended too. Went to the Quad somethin Peking Duck place, evidently the mecca of P-king duck, and had the best duck I ever tasted. Great trip, thanks in part to some of you guys. Theanks much. Jet-lag is comin on now, gotta go.
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Hope you didn't turn-over any techy stuff to them Chuck, as we shuffle papers in our informational glass towers and buy-buy-buy from them - we will be at their mercy.
This country needs less Starbuck drinkin'weenies in suits.
If the truth be known, these are about to have their home and autos repo'ed - they buy debt, but forget about their own.
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LG,
We had a 'meet & greet' with their aviation Feds. No tech exch. We sell lots of planes to the airlines over there. The market for selling all kinds of things over there is beyond huge. They are a country struggling with their growing freedoms and blossoming economy and their huge population. It reminded me of mid sixties Japan in terms of development in Beijing. Still, there's definitely a stratification of the economy. But it is growing and growning fast. I believe they're on track to gain freedoms more in line with western cultures soon.
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Glad you had a great time Chuck!
Like your comparison with 1960s Japan. Having grown up hearing first hand stories about living in China (Shanghi) and Russia, I also appreciate the realism implied in your last sentence in post above. China has a very different past than England, so, the many centuries of legal evolution that USA largely borrowed from England, really have no basis in China. There are good, Chinese reasons for the changes we see there today. Stay tuned.
Question: Does Starbucks still have a shop in Forbidden City? It was very discrete in 2002, with no glaring neon sign outside. Yes, the coffe was typical Starbucks.
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Lowell is 100% right.
Sure the Chinese buy a lot from us - today. They are also on the fast track to reverse engineer and copy everything we send over there. Tomorrow will be a different story.
The Japan-China comparison is an interesting parallel. Take a look at the bite the Japanese took out of the collective American rear end - and they are just a tiny nation. What size will the bit be the Chinese take? Does anyone here know how much of the US is already owned by the Japanese? It's a staggering figure.
I have to say anyone that thinks the rise of China will be good for the US is a fool. Do any of you have grandchildren? What kind of legacy are we leaving for them? Someday your precious 3 year old will rush home and excitedly tell his wife that he actually had the honor of polishing Mr. Wu's boots.
Does it bother anyone besides me that no one in the US can make a spoon anymore?
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