Shanghai

I arrived in Shanghai today. The immigration officer was surprisingly polite and welcoming to me - a sharp contrast to my experiences in the US and Europe where they treat almost every foreigner entering their gates with suspicion and disdain.

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Also, free enterprise is very much alive here, much more than in the market economies of the 'free world' now bogged down by high taxation, high unemployment, strikes and regulations.

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Isn't it an irony that the communists are more open for business than the capitalists and that I feel more free in China than in the West?
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