China played the long game.
The Mao years were all about purging all foreign influence on China. Once that was accomplished, China had a plan to trap the West by offering cheap labor and manufacturing with the promise of opening up their markets to a billion Chinamen.
And now that trap is about to slam shut.
Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller brought Deng Xiao Peng’s post-Mao China into the International System specifically because the cultural revolution had razed the ancient culture and the one child policy was an admission ticket to the high table of international Technocracy above the Capitalism-Communism dichotomy. China isn’t an aberration in the 1 world system, it’s the Foundation.