China's investment in the present Administration has been far more guarded than the president's escapades with a certain lady just a few years older than his daughter. A close friend of mine went to China as an English teacher in 1993. Her lifelong ambition had been to be a missionary to China, and she went with full intention of doing undercover missionary work while being a volunteer teacher. She did succeed in finding an American church group to sponsor the young Chinese lady. However, my friend described quite a different portrait of China than the one to which our tour groups will be treated.
China apparently has wall to wall people.
My friend described scrawny vegetables and rice soaked in grease, food she could not eat. Her first decent meal, she told me upon her return, was obtained from a McDonald's that was some distance from her temporary housing. She endured the eight-week stay in China, but her health suffered greatly. China needs electrical generating capabilities. Any ordinary Safeway, Winn-Dixie, Food Lion or other American supermarket would be unimaginable luxury to the people of China.