Richard Millhouse Nixon started a dialog with China that was entirely appropriate. Subsequently, political characters have abused the relationship with China to advance their own ends. The American public have had their Military and Industrial secrets stolen, elections influenced by illegal monies, and Public Health threatened by tainted (but inexpensive) products. The political characters steering this course is not Nixon.
What was so appropriate about opening up dialogue and trade with a mass murderer who was keeping his country poor and weak? Now it’s not so poor and not so weak?
I was against it at the time, and I’m against any trade with China now.
Nixon was a cynic, and the cynics and traitors (Clinton above all others) who have shipped our technology to China are merely following Nixon’s lead.