Children in both countries are exposed to the direct and indirect consequences of family instability, safety hazards, violent behavior, virtual reality, sexual stimulation, materialism and individualism."Ĭollaboration is the key, he explains in the book. "China is confronted with dealing with the impact of rural to urban migration of millions of families with and without their children. "Even more ominously, one-third of the children in the United States are failing in some aspect of their lives," says Westman. In China they are quite pervasive, where as here they are limited to middle class families," says Westman, a university professor and psychiatrist who at age 90 has a long list of honors, and faculty and medical positions, and is still going strong. "The family is really the bedrock and family values in our culture are almost identical to those in China. "We have more in common than we think," says Westman of the two countries.Īs a man who participated in both the tearing down of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall, who has held International positions for the prevention of nuclear war for some 30 years, and has met with both Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Martin Luther King Jr., he has a firm grasp on what we need in order to have a strong global alliance. Westman's groundbreaking book, The China-America Alliance , lays out a framework for worldwide collaboration through the alliance of America and China, potentially paving the way for a form of world peace.
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