This is a man that (according to this article) has an effectively unlimited travel budget from the New York Times. He has also consistently ignored or fluffed over many of the negative trends and aspects of the China.
Friedman has also ignored environmental realities in China, listening to the government and business elites (apparently without realizing that not everything the central government declares actually ends up working) in the New York Times no less! He has been called an 'airport guru' to jets to different countries, takes quick glimpses at the capital cities and the latest high-tech industrial projects, and then gets back onto an airplane. This is of course a simplification, but it does seem to be relatively accurate!
He also seems to be a bit hypocritical in light of his own "climate and energy use" ideas.
EDIT: A classmate from Kalamazoo, Sean, who writes far more articulately and intelligently than my sloppy rants, has written a bit on Thomas Friedman. He has an analysis which recognizes subtitles far more than my writing does.
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