‘I have a faith in the Chinese people, fundamentally great, honest, frugal, industrious, cheerful, independent, tolerant, friendly and courteous, and the soldiers, too.” That’s the Chinese people in the eyes of former United States General Joseph Stilwell, who served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. armed forces in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, some 80 years ago.
“And I might add we still see that in the Chinese people today,” John Easterbrook, grandson of Stilwell, recently told Xinhua News Agency.
Stilwell was an old friend of the Chinese people, who gave active support to China’s cause of liberation and progress and made positive contributions to the friendship between the two peoples, which the Chinese
