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Adam Smith: China Crossroads 2001 "China is reality in this new century...China has a long civilization and doesn't inherently think of America as an enemy. It would be extremely dangerous to convince the emerging generation of China that we are enemy number one."-Henry Kissinger China is the world's most populous nation and has the largest standing army. Sometime in the new century, it will have the biggest economy. Opportunity has brought business leaders by the hundreds from the U.S. to cities such as Shanghai, China's new business hub. Kodak is spending one billion dollars to ensure its place in the Chinese market, which is now its third largest consumer. Under the People's Republic, China's role in world economic and political affairs has grown increasingly more important. How will this formidable nation - and its Communist government - fare in the new century? ADAM SMITH: CROSSROADS 2001, a one-hour documentary special airs in the New York metropolitan area on WNET Channel 13 on Jan 7, 2000 at 10:00pm. The show will air elsewhere in the country on public television after February 13, 2000, please watch your local listings. Host Adam Smith explores China's past, present and future. Smith, who examined the country's early reforms in his previous public television special From Marx to MasterCard, and chronicled the new Chinese middle class in Made in China, returns to examine the challenges China faces at the dawn of a new century. From the typical image of the rigid Communist militia to the urban race for riches, Smith reflects on what China really is like; whether the Internet will change its political structure; and if, as the world's biggest market, it will be a cooperative partner to the U.S. or a rigid and power-hungry foe. The program explores 21st-century China -- much of it in villages that have not changed for hundreds of years. Smith visits Weng Lee's renowned kitchen and watches, as exotic imperial dishes are prepared at the world-famous restaurant. He sits down with some university students who have shocked their parents by taking American names, and they discuss the conflict between the generation that shouted "down with American imperialists" and the generation that follows Deng Xiao Ping's aphorism, "to get rich is glorious." China's new Internet pioneers believe the World Wide Web and its free flow of information will change the country, and maybe even the Communist party. Smith speaks with 36-year-old Chinese-American multibillionaire Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo!. Yang is a hero to Chinese youth like Jason Wu, a Stanford University graduate who founded his own Internet Startup Company in Beijing - the first Chinese business to offer stock options. He hopes to go public in the U.S. Smith interviews a wide array of political and business leaders, including the House International Relations Committee Chairman Ben Gilman, Henry Kissinger, and former U.S. ambassadors Winston Lord and James Sasser, as well as ordinary citizens such as Harvard University graduate Minxin Pei, who grew up in Shanghai and wonders whether the Communist bureaucracy can contain the economic reforms it has launched. An Emmy-winning host and best-selling author, Adam Smith has been praised in The New York Times for his insight into the Chinese economy and his ability to make the Chinese economy and his ability to make the Chinese marketplace understandable to those who are not well acquainted with the country. In ADAM SMITH: CROSSROADS 2001, he offers a vivid picture of Chinese life, and shows why he believes China is prime for investment.
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