Will the next car that you buy be made in China?

Tom Friedman reports on economic growth in China and compares its plans for the future with what's happening in a U.S. preoccupied with fear of its own shadow in today's New York Times.

China is investing heavily in electric cars and the batteries needed to operate them, in high speed trains to connect cities, and in stem cell research. Americans, in the meantime, don't have enough sense to know that energy efficient homes can be built and think that stem cell research is being used to create mice with human brains.