You know, when you land in Beijing Airport, you are greeted with an incredibly clean, well-functioning,

well-ordered airport. It's far above the quality of any of the U.S. airports I've been to over the last

few years. I would put it roughly at the level of Heathrow Terminal 5, so certainly better than

Terminal 3 or Terminal 2, better certainly than

Frankfurt Airport, perhaps not as good as some of the great Asian and Middle Eastern

airports sort of emerged since then, but that's absolutely a sense that you get as you land.

It didn't feel particularly police either. I mean, you do get a sense of CCTV cameras as you do, for example,

when you're landing in a London airport and you obviously feel the police and security presence

in many of these airports, particularly in the US. I was a bit surprised. I really expected much

more of that. And there were, you know, lots of batteries

of cameras you might find in, in public space, in larger numbers than you would see in London.

So you arrive at this airport. It's clean. It's really, really well functioning. One thing to notice

that you notice really straight away is that there's essentially no obesity in China and in, you know, three days and seeing hundreds of thousands of people, you get a sense that this is not an epidemic problem that they are dealing with. The scale is absolutely huge. I actually went to a conference as a sort of academic expert, and the conference center

I was at ran to some 1.4 million square meters. To give you a sense of what that scale is,

that's 100 times the size of Union Square in San Francisco. If you imagine Soho and Tribeca in New York,

it's double that size. And this is a convention center that was put up in just a few years,

about seven or eight years ago. It's really, really remarkable. So I want to put my comments

into three categories. The first category is what I noticed about infrastructure and engineering.

The second is what I saw in and around AI, and I talked to a number of AI founders and researchers

while I was there. And also, the third set of observations really about electric vehicles and

what's happening with the auto industry, again, having ridden in a number of cars, but also talking

to a number of people involved in those areas. So I'll make my way through there. And as always,

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