Can we get over this Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller Bull stuff.
Kissinger helped open up China. What we did with that was up to us, to the business community. The business community was wrong!
Our trade policies were gutted and transformed in the early 1990s, not 1973.
Big business went in big-time, and they weren’t looking to Rockefeller to find out what they should be doing.
This Rockefeller boggie-man nonsense is nothing more than that. And what it leads folk to do is dismiss all the corporations who made deals that screwed over the United States.
Rockefeller didn’t force our businesses to hand over patent information, cut millions of jobs U.S. Citizens used to do, and outsource everything else they could.
Sheesh!
We've had trade relations with a lot of different countries. Some of them became successful exporters. Many didn't. China could have become one of the failures, rather than the (apparently) great success that it is.
The goal at the time was to separate Russian and China, to tie us closer to China, and maybe encourage something capitalistic in China. That worked.
But we didn't have to become dependent on China. We didn't have to gut our own industries. It wasn't planned way back in the 1970s either.
Well, what was it that Kissinger PROPOSED to China? I can bet it probably wasn’t “you ship us dolls, we ship you corn, and we are even steven.”
This was at the time when China got the notion that “it is glorious to grow rich.”
What said rich to them? American dollars. As many of these debt notes we issued, as possible.