Land of hi-tech, that’s all

Thomas Friedman just wrote this piece on New York Yimes yesterday. He started with:”If anti-Americanism is on the rise around the world, no one told the kids in the student visa line at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. The quest among Chinese students for visas to study in America, say U.S. Embassy officials, has become so intense that it has spawned Internet chat rooms, where Chinese students swap stories about which arguments work best with which U.S. consular officials and even give them names like “Amazon Goddess,” “Too Tall Baldy” and “Handsome Guy.” ”

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