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.
I agree. Their totalitarian form of voernment has not changed, they've just adapted their economic model to avoid what the Soviets experienced...and what they were already experiencing at the time.
Now, with their more fascists model for economics, they represent a threat, IMHO, an order of magnitude greater than Nazi Germany of the 1930s. When you couple their growing world-wide influence, their growing military, and the radical Islamofascist threat, the situation is very acute.
...and , as you say, we are funding it.