My 'Win in China' story in today's Asian Wall Street Journal

I have an op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street Journal Asia about Win in China, the hit TV show in China I wrote about in the blog last week. You can read the article on the Opinion page of the Wall Street Journal’s website by clicking here.

During my visit to Beijing week before last I was able to spend time with Anna Wang, the show’s extraordinary creator. Win in China is a reality show where 120,000 young Chinese entrepreneurs compete to win 10 million RMB ($1.2 million) in venture capital financing to start their own business.

I wrote this story so Americans could see that its time to throw out the image of China as people in Mao jackets riding bicycles. These kids are capable, educated, and very hungry for success. Show the article to your children so they can get to know the competition they will face in the global economy. If that doesn’t light a blue flame behind them to do their homework I don’t know what will.

JR

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  1. John Konop says:

    YOUR KIDS FUTURE

    This is an editorial on the web site economy in crisis. Do you think Americans should be concerned with our kid’s future due to poorly negotiated trade and immigration policy?

    PREPARE YOUR KIDS FOR THE FUTURE — AS A SERVANT

    EC-In 1994, more than 1 in 8 jobs in America was in manufacturing. In 2014, if US government (Bureau of Labor Statistics) projections are to be believed, that figure will have slipped to less than 1 in 12.

    The government is actually telling us in black and white that the policies that they are enacting will decrease absolute and relative manufacturing employment to levels below that of the 1950’s – over 2 million jobs below. In the 1950’s, 30% of US employees were in manufacturing – almost one in three jobs! This country was a relative manufacturing superpower.

    In less than 20 years since America put in place some of its most self-devastating policy decisions (NAFTA, WTO, CAFTA, etc.), this country will have almost completely converted from a self-sufficient sovereign state, capable of manufacturing what it needs to sustain and protect itself, to a country of servants – serfs, working at the behest of foreign employers or engaged in the sales, marketing, and distribution of foreign-made goods – working at their discretion, for wages they determine, and forced to pay their prices for needed goods. This is the definition of a servant.