American Utopia response

After reading the article about how China is pulling away from America in certain areas leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. I feel that as an American we should always be on top in everything, it may be that I am greedy from growing up during a great time period in America, or it could be that I have a good sense of Nationalism. What myself and others need to realize after reading the article though is that China is so set on overtaking America in everything and becoming the first nation on earth is that China is so strict on everything so that they are able to accomplish this goal. As Americans we are entitled to freedom of speech, religion, press, pretty much we are free to do what we want. In China you are not entitled to any of these rights, not even one of the most powerful companies in the world, Google, is able to run without restrictions in China. I feel that the article is correct in certain areas on how China is becoming a better nation than we are but it fails to realize that we as Americans have more rights than the Chinese. Also, in China the government is so set on creating the most up to date factories and power plants that they are forcing their way into the areas that they need to build them. For example, to build the recently finished Three Gorges Dame, the Chines Government forced out over 250,000 people from villages that had been in these places for thousands of years, destroying monuments and history that these villagers had cherished for centuries. In America this would not have been possible, there are too many organizations that would cause a fuss about anything leaving us no room to expand anymore. In America's thriving period factories, power plants and all kinds of businesses that would help the country were being built wherever they needed to be because people knew that it would help them. Now, you can not even cut a tree down without a group of people complaining about how you are going to ruin the environment. So the article is correct in saying that America is falling behind China, but it is not because China is becoming more powerful, it is because China has no obstacles in its way.