Befriending China

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(26 42 50 1)>Befriending China tells the story of China's current effort to open up to a flood of visitors as part of a campaign of People-To-People Peacemaking. The story is partially based on three visits to China from late 2023 through late 2024. It describes the impressive achievements China has made in infrastructure education health care and poverty alleviation. It includes an in-depth eye-witness account of visiting Xinjiang debunking official rumors in the US of abuse of the Uyghur population there. It also highlights exciting tourism opportunities with closeup looks at the mountainous Guizhou and Shanxi provinces and the amazing megacities of Shanghai Beijing Chongqing Hangzhou and Suzhou. It includes a preface by Carlos Martinez editor of the Friends of Socialist China website. It also examines China's democratic system and its successful foreign policy based on common prosperity and a shared future. Finally it details ongoing US efforts to slander China and prepare for war against it arguing that China is not our enemy. Looking at prospects for peace and obstacles that could interfere it includes details of US efforts to surround and contain China and also provides details of China's Belt and Road Initiative and the BRICS coalition.</span></p>