> I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco. Ideas about what? Did you try discussing free speech or democracy?

> I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco. Ideas about what? Did you try discussing free speech or democracy? Did you try to show a flag of Tibet or Taiwan? It's true that a lot of people in China are free from the same political concerns of Americans, yet, how has that turned out for them in the long term? Per capita GDP?