Zhou had friends and family on Taiwan and mainland China - his daughter lived in San Francisco.
Do we see ourselves the way others see us? Would Zhou (or Joe, as his coworkers called him) say he is my artist/waiter friend?
The Japanese restaurant is gone, replaced by an Italian restaurant that has closed, too, I believe.
The Asian economic zone appears to thrive once again, but...
We are one planet of people. Can we admit we are a one-world, global economy and slowly forget the isolationism of the past? Many of us have.
Some would say that all economies are corrupt. I agree and disagree. ALL economies depend on creative people to push the limits of economic growth, from the local bakery to the IMF. Cheating, bribing and spying are natural properties of living beings and we, even in our so-called enlightened modern socioeconomy, practice these traits daily (call it "business," if you will; I see it as the ways states of energy naturally interact).
Capitalism and democracy are interesting bedfellows. So, too, communism and capitalism. I won't rewrite "Animal Farm" to allegorically comment on equality (but you can see that pure communism and pure democracy are ideals not supported by reality; we tend to break down [analytically speaking] into subcultures of like/equal character types).
Remember we live on a planet that has become a global, competitive marketplace of ideas, some ideal and some not. One big experiment with lots of setbacks and lots of forward progress.
We never truly control risk. We merely give ourselves a mass hypnotic illusion that all is temporarily well in the moment. The chaotic churning of economic risk inevitably (indubitably!) erupts volcanically somewhere - is your natural disaster plan up to date?
Proactively plan your reaction to risk - you'll never manage risk, only push people to take risks more creatively.
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