As the tension rise between the USA and CPR and ratchet up in a dangerous way a more widespread understanding of what the thinking and capacities on both side of the divide is critical for the human race’s continuance and no better person to impart this than Kevin Rudd. Twice Prime minister of Australia. As a fluent Mandarin speaker who has sat down with Xi and can read CPR policy papers and knows America’s ever lurching policies towards the CPR just as well he is some one who writes with authority, gravitas, and hope. My two years working in China working for an American Company between 1997 and 1999 leads me to think his words ring true. I also share his affection for the Chinese people. For me as a proud if circumspect American I have a great affection for the human race as a whole and hope fervently for it’s survival. This book and the thinking and fact collection it represents is an important step in the direction of human global survival.