Your admiration for the ability of totalitarian regimes to direct and control the limited prosperity of a large population is obvious, as is Thomas Friedman’s.
Well, my ability or Friedman’s ability is not the issue, frankly. The issue is America’s ability to compete. We will not improve the ability for American children dumbed down by PC public school education to compete in the global economy by lobbing rhetorical taunts at Chinese income disparity. In fact, such self-absorbed hectoring will only make the current system of sub-standard US education more entrenched. The ire should be directed at a society that elevates pop stars and sports stars as worthy of emulation instead of entrepreneurs and capitalists, and not at Chinese governance.