Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. He also wrote Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).
The pace in China remains frantic -- from the building of supercomputers and an explosion of innovation to massive urban development. But is it sustainable?