An interesting exercise: read the forward to “Best Enemy...” and replace the USSR with China. History may not precisely repeat, but it sure does rhyme.
I was in foreign trade business for 20+ years. AMAZINGLY, THE BIGGEST DOOR OPENERS INTO CHINA ARE THE TAIWAN BUSINESS PEOPLE! They are HUGE trading partners with the Chicoms. AMAZING! They trade with their worst enemy! One day the USA may have to go to war to defend Taiwan and for what?
You don't see the Cubans in Miami doing that, even now 50+ years after the Castro takeover.