TRUE friendship has no national boundaries. This is the conclusion I have drawn from per- sonal experience over the past 80 years of my life.Back in 1944, during the Second World War, I was a student at the Southwest Associated University in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province. It was there that I happened to meet a group of Americans serving with the US 14th Air Force. They were sent over as part of the Allied Forces fighting the Japanese invaders. These upright young men were shocked at seeing the streets of Kunming swarming with ragged beggars, while officials of the ruling Kuomintang government made fortunes out of U.S. war supplies.