Nixon intervention saved China from Soviet nuclear attack

South China Morning Post ^ | May 12, 2010 | Mark O'Neill

[rickmichaels]

Published several years ago but still an interesting read today, IMO.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Wouldn’t Nixon/Kissinger wait for more than the ‘first’ missile to fly before getting involved? The 2 of them thought of the world as a chessboard. What’s a few million Chicoms?

[Buckeye McFrog]

So Republicans making the place safe for cheap labor goes back WAAAAAAAAY farther than we thought it did.

[DIRTYSECRET]

It’s not unlikely that the same thing could happen between our ‘friends’ India and Pakistan. Will the Haigism apply? “We’re friends of both.”

[gr8eman]

Commies never lie, dontcha know!

[Chainmail]

Nixon the Great!

[dfwgator]

Nixon saved Israel, Golda Meir said as much.

[reg45]

So! Richard Nixon prevented a global thermonuclear war by his astute action.

[Fedora]

That’s gotta be worth a whole lotta guanxi.

[ifinnegan]

I doubt much or any if this is true.

If so it shows even more how stupid Nixon/Kissinger were.

[Sam Gamgee]

I have to ask why?

[McGruff]

I find this hard to believe.

“...the only winning move is not to play.”

[shanover]

Nixon was a much greater President than history shows. Watergate was all B.S. as much as this current B.S. with Trump.

[dfwgator]

Nixon, outside of Reagan, was head and shoulders above his peers. Although I still consider him to have been a fairly liberal President.

[TheRightGuy]

The US would help Taiwan defend Quemoy and Matsu

as i recall, the defense of quemoy and matsu was a major issue in the 1960 presidential campaign

[Chainmail]

Nixon was a superb American - and the Left took him down.

Like they’re trying to do now with our President.

[dfwgator]

The Left never forgave Nixon for HUAC.

[the_daug]

"Nixon ordered the airlift, saying, “We are going to get blamed just as much for three planes as for three hundred,” and later in exasperation at the slow start of US support, said “Use every [plane] we have—everything that will fly.”" 

Nixon's stepping down from office had scared China and the USSR. The most powerful man in the world being removed from office without violence.

[central_va]

Nixon started all of this China s—t. It was a cold war tactic that is coming back to bite us on the economic butt.