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| Shanghai, 1990 and 2010. photo: Mamie Young |
The DiploMan emailed me the picture above a few days ago. The photo was taken from roughly the same location in Shanghai, twenty years apart. Unreal.
Coincidentally, Diane Sawyer is covering China’s massive growth and westernization this week on ABC’s World News Tonight. From one feature story:
…Chinese engineering is speeding ahead in other areas, outdoing American efforts. By the end of next year, a train from Beijing to Shanghai will take just four hours. It will cover a distance equivalent to that between New York and Atlanta, a trip that takes Americans 18 hours…
For more fascinating articles head on over to the ABC World News Tonight website this week. At the very least, you’ll know what to look for when the Chinese take over the world (lots of McDonalds’).