Honolulu, Hawaii. 9 August 2022
It was early December 2000 when I arrived in Hong Kong. Here in front of me was the gateway to China – a vibrant entrepot filled currents of Cantonese culture mixed with British flair and Mainland Chinese implied threats. What a vision; arriving at one of the world’s storied hotels along the waterfront with the backdrop of an impressive skyline comparable to my native New York.
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On evening of the 11th of February 2002, Chinese New Year Eve in Shanghai, we celebrated the coming year of the Dark Horse. Fireworks blazed for hours, exploding in many hues over the HuangPu. Coincidentally, the astrological sign, Dark Horse, is associated with knowing how to enjoy life, seek new and exciting events and be where the action is. That’s what we were doing – right in the epi-center of the China miracle!
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Time was we thought the world was flat – chaos would befall us should we sail too far. Then Christopher Columbus proved the world was round. In 2005, New York Times columnist Tom Freidman postulated that the world is flat – again! So, is the world flat, or is it round?
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