China Changes Everything

<p><strong>China is the 21</strong><sup><strong>st</strong></sup><strong> century's greatest success story rising from poverty </strong></p><p><strong> to become a leading force for change in the world. In these essays learn how China is transforming social and economic life.</strong></p><ul><li>China's <em>Targeted Poverty Alleviation</em> program has helped 800 million of its people out of extreme poverty.</li><li>China is rapidly producing solar panels wind turbines and hydro power replacing fossil fuels and leading the world in efforts to save the planet from climate change disaster.</li><li>Electric cars high-speed rail clean and quiet metro subways in all major Chinese cities are setting an example for the world.</li><li>China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is extending its own infrastructure revolution to friends in the Global South: ports highways schools hospitals power grids communication and industrialization instead of debt traps and neocolonial dependency.</li><li>China is playing a role of mediator and peacemaker: it recently achieved rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia and helped mediate ceasefire between Pakistan and India.</li></ul><p><strong>Contributors</strong> include Gerald Horne Jacqueline Luqman Margaret Kimberley </p><p> K.J. Noh Paweł Wargan Kenneth Hammond Radhika Desai Megan Russell Danny Haiphong and other Friends of Socialist China.</p>