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Chapter 1: If You See Something, Say Something

• In September 2010, Tom Friedman traveled to Tianjin, China, to participate in the World Economic Forum summer conference.

• Five years before, a car ride from Beijing was the only way to get to the city, but in 2010, there was an ultramodern station for the world-class high-speed train.

• At an education conference in San Jose, a junior high student told him that the Chinese people have more ambition than Americans.

• A reader wrote to Tom that America no longer embraced challenge.
• It is not a foregone conclusion that while America dominated the last century, China will dominate this one.

• While there are independent examples of initiative and philanthropy, America needs action on a big scale.

• Authors Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum see that America is in disrepair and neglected and in decline.

• China is improving economically but it still suffers under the weight...

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