China didn’t help “defeat” the USSR. Besides, the USSR is on its way back under Putin in a slightly different form (Putin calls it the “Eurasian Union”). China was never an ally in that fight; they merely took advantage so that they could become the vanguard power spreading world communism. Look at what their influence did to us. Mr. EPA/Amtrak/OSHA/Wage-and-price-control Nixon started that ball rolling.
No, China negated the Soviet influence in Southeast Asia once the US left Vietnam.
“...Nixon started that ball rolling.”
So by this logic we can blame Admiral Perry for the Pacific War and George Washington for the Civil War because they “started the ball rolling”?