text:  Let's go back in time to China in the mid-1960s. Mao Zedong's communist government was in power with a goal to transform China. Under his rule, millions of people died in the Great Chinese Famine, and those suspected of being enemies of the Communist Party were persecuted and killed. Millions of them. And with all of this going on, Mao aimed to introduce a new China to the world. And to do that, China needed friends.