Now for today’s onslaught from this barnyard Solzhenitsyn.
Before admiring Walter Russell Mead’s fresh insight , where were the warnings from this journalist in 1972 when Nixon went to China and set the currently unfolding disaster up with immoral posturing.
I said “Don’t awake the slumbering dragon” in 1972 and I say it now.
I said in 1972 that commerce with China is immoral and I say it now.
Bill Buckley gave a 2 and 1/2 hour speech, after he returned from China in 1972 (Boca Raton), saying the much same thing and making me think that perhaps I wasn’t crazy.
Nixon was wrong because he forgot ethics and morality in favor of a suicidal “Realpolitok”.
He was behind kicking Taiwan (the real China) out of the UN and gave their seat to the People’s Republic.
Immoral.
Interacting with China did not have to mean giving away the family farm.
Or dancing with Mao, Pat Nixon.
Most of us are still asleep about China. We will wake up and be dancing with Mao’s ghost during the exterminations.
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My Dad served in the Korean War. We knew what the Communist Chinese were then, and that has not changed as much as many seem to think.