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As somebody who was around when Nixon opened the door I could see this coming. DETENTE was another screwup. Him and Kissinger were foreign policy idiots.

The opening of relations with China wasn't a bad idea. It was what took place long after Nixon and Kissinger were involved, that really screwed the pooch.

Just having a means of dialogue directly with China wasn't a bad idea. It was the middle of the Cold War and we needed to offset the U.S.S.R. Doing what we did since the 1992 time frame was what was literally criminal IMO.

Look at our approaches to the U.S.S.R. and China. With Russia we kept a line of dialogue open, refused to trade with them while doing our best to stop the flow of goods, services and cash into the Soviet block, which resulted in a colapse of the U.S.S.R. In 1992, we totally ignored the object lesson of how we retarded Soviet growth and brought it down, and implemented one of the most self-destructive foreign policy lapses in judgement in our nation's history.

Are Nixon and Kissinger responsible for the actions that took place in 1992? No, George Bush the first and Bill Clinton the ass, were. Congress wasn't any help. It was a collective cluster f--k of American interests IMO, and blaming Nixon and Kissinger for what ultimately took place, is a little like blaming the inventor of the wheel for the damage of howitzers that have wheels on them.

Look at Nixon's utilization of foreign policy to play off China against Russia. Then look at what we're doing today despite China and Russia having aligned against us. Sorry, but Nixon was a sage compared to the idiots we have in office today.

Do you honestly think Nixon would have okayed our handing of missile technology and other strategic gifts over to China? I sure don't.

Nixon opened the damn door to trade PERIOD and helped drag them into the 20th century

That led to getting spys into the country

And his DETENTE was S&%$canned by Reagan .His China policy should have been also