how china is replacing america in twenty first century technology leadership china and then and now from one thousand nine hundred two to two thousand and twelve my personal experiences in china by michael i began my career in the fortune five hundred became one of the first international lawyers in the china after nixon opened the doors even became an entrepreneur and went to syria for an international kidnapping case i've done international fraud cases you name it on nine eleven i was also a t v terrorism expert as well as back in during the first gulf war one nine hundred ninety one you can see copies of this all on you tube at link i'm the founder and c e o of armor glass international and the author of the book better times ahead april fool which is a story about what china and india and these countries were like three decades ago it's what they're like today the book ins with agenda for american greatness which outlines how we got into this mess and how do we get out you can stay in tune through my global american value link why does china count well because china's economy is likely to surpass united states economy by twenty thirty according to a u s intelligence report all the photos taken in this slide show are in houston time china is actually thirteen hours ahead of us central time childhood money when i first went to china in one thousand nine hundred two everyone made about thirty dollars a month there were no millionaires the first chinese millionaire was actually a lady selling eggs by tw twelve china has over one million millionaires third number three in the world after us they also have two hundred and seventy billionaires they added two hundred and sixty two thousand and here's how that same spot looks in twenty two zero huge difference if you think gas prices are going down think again this is the new normal here are a couple shots  for comparison this is me on the great wall in two thousand and twelve the wall looks better i'll look worse but things change in fact as you can see i was the foreign curiosity back then and i must admit i was equally curious about them compare the prior's seeing to what shanghai looks in two thousand and twelve on the bug and shanghai with the financial center of china and asia like new york is for america no it's the building on the right to look like a giant can opener  they have some amazing architecture in china compare that to the scene in houston the photo i took on the left about nine hundred ninety three in the photo on the right proximately tw twelve how little change has happened here in the same time frame china now leads america in seven key twenty first century technologies supercomputers they now have the world's fastest supercomputer they are developing high voltage transmission lines they have a high speed rail system that gone from an importer of high speed rail technology to export or in a mere six years they have advanced coal technologies and they are also leading in nuclear power with over thirty under construction as we speak china is also leading an alternative energy vehicles faceplant they plan to invest over seventeen billion in hybrids electric fuel cell vehicles they also lead in renewable energy china is installing wind power at a faster rate than any nation in the world manufacturing almost half of the world's solar p v systems and it's also home of many of the wind turbine manufacturers in the world let's start with the china's rail system since it's the most visible only established in two thousand and seven it has quickly become the largest in the world over eight thousand kilometers to track they are almost expected to double that by two thousand and twenty with speeds averaging one hundred eighty six miles per hour but that's not there fast as one china also opened the world's longest high speed rail line which goes from beijing to capital of the north to gong show the commercial center in the south nearly fifteen hundred miles cuts the trip from twenty hours to eight here's a photo of the chinese rail system notice how china looks a lot like the united states and shape yet it's even bigger landmass here's a photo i took in one thousand nine hundred two of a typical chinese locomotive on the way out to see the great wall for the first time you'll see the comparison to america shortly in here is the typical chinese rail car back in one thousand nine hundred two compare that to the twenty twelve version of one of china's bullet trains that travel at one hundred and eighty six miles per hour tremendous change wow and then suddenly when they're fast this train you're looking at it it's the maglev magnetic levitation which travels up to two hundred  sixty five miles per hour on its run in to shanghai airport its amazing run you're going to get to see here shortly compare that to america's best in two thousand and twelve an amtrak locomotive it's stunning it almost looks like the same thing that china head in one thousand nine hundred two thirty years ago here's a better comparison of the us model the current model in the top l sixty five in china another closer view of the maglev notice how it throughout the run on the bottom there that's how it hovers by magnets above the track making for extremely smooth rod and very fast here's another photo of the mag lived over the countryside on its own dedicated pathway unlike most of ours to cross roads with arms traffic wrecks etc they do separate the grey between the japan china france and then we have the us he united states why is this important well hang with me because you're going to get it right on our education ranking the u s right now is about seventeenth in the developed world for education that's the developed world not the developing world finland south korea while they're at the top the two thousand and nine study found that the u s students ranked twenty fifth among thirty four countries and math and science math and science that is the key technology of the future look at each china sea of singapore lead in a few have korea hong kong finland we are way down there guys we've got to get our game to win this education and skills according to a study chinese children are highly likely to become better educated with a better understanding of the world than are american counterparts that will make the chinese children better competitors for the global goods and the good jobs that the world will have to offer most of those are going to be global jobs not local jobs right now america has two million over two million jobs that are open high tech high pay over seventy thousand dollars a year yet americans do not have the skills to fill them get this right americans do not have the skill chinese do the indians do others do we do not we cannot win by being a nation of burger flippers alright here's another reality check education is the key to our future don't forget that we're not going to win by being experts in celebrity trivia only six percent of u s students performed at the advanced level on a international exam fifty six countries in two thousand and six that's lower than any of thirty other countries it really could threaten our economic growth and it is we could lower the unemployment rate by over one percent yet those two plus million jobs were filled by americans today our education system has actually been declining since the year two thousand in two thousand america was number one in education we need to get back there by two thousand and eight we were down to number nine we were actually twelve developed nations in college graduation seventy ninth in elementary school enrollment our students at that point ranked eleventh in science ninth in math the average age of american schools is forty years old and even democracy of the hundred and seventy two democracies in the world there's couple hundred countries out there the u s ranks one thirty ninth in voter participation more than half of the college seniors recently flunked a civic literacy exam and fact half of the u s states don't even require civics education in high school how do they learn become a citizen if they don't take civics here's why we have a problem only one in five americans actually knows has a passport and actually knows what's going on in the world we hear the phrases we are the best america's number one based on what fact that they heard this has a because they've seen it this is the reason for this show is t show what a direct comparison from my personal experience where we rank in the world in technology and education and we are not number one but we do need to get back there here's more facts china and cars right now two thousand and twelve the largest car market in the world is china in the next five years next five years they will add one hundred seventy million more cars gas already cost six bucks a gallon there so if you think fuel prices are going to go down think again the most popular cars japanese america comes in at number three very interesting the i phone which is actually made in china our tour guide told us cost nine hundred dollars in china so it's actually cheaper to get it here in the u s than they are in china where it's made this a photo of an i pad that's in chinese are idle time tripping back to tiananmen square one thousand nine hundred to check it out compare it to where we are today i actually took this photo in the middle of tiananmen square in one thousand nine hundred two i could get by with it then you would be killed today trying to do it not because of the police but because you get run over by so many cars before you had a chance to all right there's nine hundred eighty two on the left there's a lot of street left and on the right twenty twelve well good luck not only traveling but the buildings have changed this is a photo of the taking hotel that i took in one thousand nine hundred two is actually consists of this building and that building in that building this is the more modern soviet style add on at the time compare that skyline to what's going on today here's one right here is the renaissance hotel we stayed at in shanghai it's amazing i took this photo actually on the display in the lobby but it's the only way of really getting a good shot of it back to the beijing skyline one thousand nine hundred two looking kind of hazy got a lot of smog and fog back then ok this is china skyline beijing skyline two thousand and twelve big difference from beijing one thousand nine hundred two also part of the beijing skyline is this dragon head if you'll look up here at says i b m there notice he's great l e d s displays at night and then during the day it's got another really amazing look to it you see architecture and china like we used to do in america but now it's there what's the book by thomas friedman that used to be a well that used to be compare that to america's infrastructure twenty twelve our sewer lines date back to the nineteenth century detroit houston new york you name it we have seventy year old bridges for example the i ten bridge over lake charles louisiana has been reduce from four lanes to two and even then it vibrates so much that when they put in a new lightbulb they break this is just one of a hundred and forty four thousand bridges that have been ruled structurally deficient we do not have the math and science leadership needed for the twenty first century jobs and not only that but rare earth minerals those things that we used to have a lead in in two thousand in since then china has cornered the market globally in these areas these are things that you need to make missile parts fighter jets very important one more time we had no global strategy one good example of technology that breaks down when you don't repair it and replace it this is the i thirty five bridge that collapsed over the mississippi river in minnesota a few years ago obviously were billion short in investment we're still only number fourteen in the number of people with college degrees today and this is chinese dress in two thousand and twelve in the bazaar pretty nice check out the the next one these are shanghai girls and you wouldn't know they were any different than american girls in the way they dress their on the bund in shanghai i met this lady in the pearl shop as we were shopping but she wasn't very talkative so moving eight to ten percent per year whereas a developed country like the united states it's thrilled to get three percent and this is china transport in twenty two wild lots of traffic jams we sat in traffic are in fact toll roads but as you can tell these are pretty modern vehicles definitely a change from one thousand nine hundred to those of you that heard about the olympics in beijing few years ago  think it was two thousand and eight while this is the scene for that notice little macdonald thing over here and you'll see some other names you'll recognize here very shortly ok we're back to one thousand nine hundred two technology electronic that we had paper in our brain that was about it all right another scene from there you can see the mr international negotiator looking at all the paper here this was his first computer and now pulled to first and last one of those he had but as you can tell most of our technology was paper china twenty two i notice the girl she's a chinese girl with a smartphone things have changed dramatically space the final frontier china became the third country in the world after america and russia actually was russia america and now china to put human beings into space this photo is actually a picture of the docking between one of the flights and their first spaced module that's been put in orbit to test it out china plans to have a completely new space station up in iranian in twenty twenty at the same year when the international space station is due to retire then what is china then the only power in space there's no international i assist two on the books look folks these take ten to twenty years to do ploy and head that's why we are short on shuttles because no one planned ahead and start replacing the shuttle probably about a year two thousand instead they waited to two thousand and five to begin that and like america the chinese also have female astronauts that's a good thing china construction bank is when one of the big finance years between for all the building going on in china with this infrastructure development another fascinating thing about china is all the unique architecture everywhere this building which i caught a glimpse out the window the buses we went by is called big pants i think you can see why scenes like this are all over china i can last count of building cranes after probably counting of over one hundred of them you see these everywhere on every highway you go china is one major country under construction from a to z and we're back to the renaissance hotel in shanghai i took this photo showing high at night from our hotel room please note if you want to do buy a apartment downtown shanghai three million dollars for about a thousand square feet same thing in beijing would run a million dollars it's actually cheaper to rent one for maybe fifteen hundred a month than it is to buy one there it is walmart and shanghai it was wal mart at pioneered outsourcing to china requiring all of its suppliers to move the manufacturing to southern china you want to blame anybody for outsourcing jobs call up walmart you might know this symbol mickey d's yes the it's even in  china chinese have actually started having issues with obesity from their kids eating fast food just like our kids eating cat food another name you'll recognize  china and oh my god you see k f c everywhere those guys have done incredible job globally setting up their stores you see them all over china never did get t well the chinese have got their kung fu masters and they may be fighting with the food but over here on the right we've got the americans do in our consumer jhon there's tiger dragon tiger on the left drag on the doing their best pose actually in a little restaurant where president bush once ate all show that to you coming right up yep that's it that little room with about two tables is where president bush wants a when he was is the chef that serve the president and us and i might say that we had a tremendous meal and nobody had a problem with that and here on the right that that is the kitchen across a little alleyway from the dining area over here go out that door you go in there and you just don't think about it and you eat and we were ok so you can survive these things and testament to that so the president and the thumbs up from the shelf in a couple of our guys on the tour and once that that's back in houston to don't find out and we had more fun our little group we laughed so much it was one of the best groups this is the meat market display one of the local markets near shanghai any refrigeration that i could see so i was tempted to buy anything well our two tour group was the first one to have the pizza revolt after about three four days of chinese food we were going crazy so we paid bribed this at mit bribed the bus driver twenty bucks please take us to  we heard that there was a pizza place mcdonald's etc right next to it sure enough we even induced our guide rainbow who was just so funny to try a corona beer and eat some pizza probably for the first time in our life it was really a fantastic evening by the way when people tell you they don't like e p a well no we pee equals pollution in fact beijing in january is under the most severe sm alert possible even when i was there in eighty two the burning of the cold us made the air go from blue to black it even put me at thirty two year old on my back for a couple days dealing with the respiratory issues this is a big problem that goes on so count your blessings unless you want to breed plaque here another shot of the toll roads look at the modern vehicles and i can't read a word of that but you know what the heck the drivers got it knew where to go oh man we went to tea plantations the walls pearl factories the silk factory yeah i bought some silicon i keep falling off the bed ever since it is the slipperiest if you ever seen if you need an expert on t v silk ploys and whatever give me a call oh i took this shot in the shanghai airport i i'm glad to know that you are here i was kind of wondering about that and north path well ok i guess you know what the heck but too funny too funny yeah we were really rough in it you can tell they they always make sure we stayed at five star hotels this one was just beautiful but they got this funky thing about putting a glass wall between the bathroom and the bedroom and i don't know about you i sure don't want to be sitting on throne with somebody looking back at me but they did have a button you could push for the shade to go down again but by the time we got there were too tired to really enjoy it crash immediately  all right all right so they take english and school and still they can't spell cultural well nobody can hear either if you notice facebook spelling lately but given a for effort i public restrooms chance to check out the chinese toilets look at this chinese style one yeah yeah yeah but fear not they do have western style ones as well i never had to do one of those because i was afraid if i got down marrow is still hanging around too funny i don't know if anybody ever buys in that stuff and check this out all these new buildings and yet they still hang out the laundry out sun but can you imagine how much electricity they would be burning if they all had dryers a billion people would dryers manage melt down probably entire planet there's not enough electricity somewhere that was one of the original anthropologist cole things then we've had lucy we've had bunch i don't know who ranks where now anyway period just my friend osh on compare how it was dressed wind power hydropower it's one of the world's largest nodes the riding here on the front one yes they not only make this stuff they use it they are the leaders china also leads in solar they're going to double their solar target and twenty fifteen they want to have at least forty gigawatts all right so this is why they are beating our socks off this is why even our solar industry has had problems because a massive investment made by the chinese to bring the cost down versus the meager little investment our congress has authorized for the same next generation technology don't just take my word for all the big changes going on over there take a look for yourself educate yourself on where we stand in the world on technology and places like china that will be our primary competitor in the twenty first century this trip actually was very readable and a little over two thousand dollars per person it covered beijing shanghai and the great wall data check it out at mission to china dot com j r gonzalez has done this about five or six years twice a year he was wonderful and even took care of one of our tour people that got sick and took her to a doctor at one o'clock in the morning check it out be an informed american before we close we have to check out for bob who's the viking who discovers a yes i'll go back home now don't forget it was the vikings who discovered america five hundred years before columbus the only difference column has had a better press release department now well you know vikings they're pretty humble there i just discovered america i'm going to go back home and get some beer from england and drink it getting questions how we get into this mess how do we get out the answers our final chapter of better times ahead april fool in agenda for american greatness just facts people have been based on facts all my life this is not political opinion this is facts better times ahead april fool dot com check it out hang 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