How can you possible say that?!!! It wasn't brilliant it was monumentally stupid. It has resulted in a weak de industrialized USA. Our "relationship" with China didn't hasten the slit up of the USSR by one day.
There are two phases of the China equation.
In 1973 Kissinger went to China an opened up the country to the outside.
Twenty years later trade policies were implemented that saw the U.S. gutted.
China didn’t surpass Japan as our largest trade deficit partner until 2000, 27 years after Kissinger went to China.
Opening up China was brilliant.
Executing the trade polices in the 1990s that saw our jobs, methods, infrastructure, and patents go to China, absolutely the dumbest things ever done by a nation to itself.