[Arthur McGowan]

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.

[ricks_place]

Mao and his ChiComs accomplices were mass murders and worse but opening a dialog with China was appropriate.

• Chinese Diplomacy balanced Soviet Diplomacy, the Soviets were a better armed and equally murderous regime.
• Relations with China on many levels allows the US to better understand the ChiComs.
• Diplomatic relations can avert confrontations with China; wars are destructive and unpredictable.
• Reality, the Nationalist Chinese lost China and the Chinese Communist ruled a billion people.
• The ChiComs are dedicated totalitarians but may be less inclined to "Cultural Revolution"-like excesses today.
• Chinese bluster aside, the US exerts a growing influence on the ChiComs.
• China Trade has been a mixed bag but hardly attributable to Nixon.
• Selling China ballistic secrets was evil but not attributable to Nixon. Thank you Bill Clinton.
• Chinese money "invested" into US politicians was evil but not attributable to Nixon. Thank you Bill Clinton.