Thank you Richard Nixon
...and Ford...and Carter...and Bush Sr...and Clinton, and a lot of others.
During the late 1940's and through the 1950's Senator and then Vice President Nixon was viewed as a anti-communist champion, fighting the good fight against Red China and then in the early 1970's President Nixon opens the door.
We were told 'they will change their ways' do to western influences.
To this day the communist dictatorship is still in control and growing more alarming thanks to the billions rolling in from the West.