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A great video except for the last 2 minutes....

China is not the world leader in anything (yet, except pollution). America might be the 2nd fiddle in the future - you talk about America gettin' it's act together, but China needs to get it's act together even moreso - but sorry, right now, China is no world leader (except for manufacturing). And heaven help us if they are a leader in ANYTHING political...

Enter a chinese university classroom and you will understand...there is a stedy flow of stagnant, uncreative memorization...He with the best higher education system will always prevail....

I agree with Phil. China is not a "world leader" again other than manufacturing. Even the Chinese government has admitted they are not and do not purport to be a Super Power, they know they have way too many problems. He had a whirlwind trip to a VAST country. I do not think he has informed himself of China. He needs to read more and travel more. He is spreading further disinformation about China. I read his column in Fast Company and will now take what he writes with a large grain of salt.

I enter a Chinese university classroom at least once every working day, and although I see a lot of students simply memorising and regurgitating, I also see a hell of a lot of bright, innovative and creative students.

Content, expression and manner illustrative of a type, 一個很典型天真﹐活潑﹐可愛的美國人。

@Brad I think you are being unfair to Scoble. He has never presented himself as a China expert. I simply asked him his reaction to what he saw over an 11-day, 5-city tour.

Are you proposing that Scoble must embed himself for years to "Learn China" before offering his observations?

I agree that there have been many uninformed things written about China (and many other countries) by parachute journalists and visiting foreigners, but I found it interesting to hear the ways in which Scoble's thinking about China had changed over the course of his visit.

What I liked about his trip was that he didn't just do the BJ/SH hop and then jump to conclusions. He went to a number of cities, many of which are not on the classic route.

From the viewpoint of a Chinese living in the country for more than three decades (and counting), the China-being-a-world-leader-or-not thing, about which some people may feel strongly about, is such a boring topic that not even worthy of mention.

From my observation, there are very few Chinese, if not none, would ever think of China as a world leader, or care to consider the country he or she lives in a emerging super power. China is way too underdeveloped. China has better thing to do than listen to what some westerners have to say.

Interesting, when a parachuting foreigner makes comments in China's favor you will see bunch of foreigners who love ranting about China bashing him or her. But you will see these very same foreign cynics living in China (why? why? why stay in China?) bashing some foreign parachuting into China making comments critical of China.

"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours."

- Dr. Robert Anthony

It sounds like Robert Scoble is starting to accept the idea of China being the next world leader. It only took 11 days and a previous visit for him to feel that this is a possibility. I wonder how many other Westerners have this frightened feeling he mentioned.

US puts all in perspective of good(USA and friends) and evil(China, USSR, Vietnam, Korea, Communists, Blacks, British, Mexicans, Arabs, Japs, etc). In fact its quite the contrary, Despite what USA tries to put out, China is getting on fine with Africa without trying to force them to Sinicise. China has been friendly with Iran since Persians, friendly with Israel and took Jewish refugees in thousands in 30s. Doesn't crusade against Muslims. Not a wonder no towers/metros in Shanghai were blown