[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Meaning specifically that China had literally gone under, and freedom was about to win in a big way, until Nixon stepped in and bailed them out.

That's right. Chine was a failure. Had the US left them alone, they would have amounted to nothing. But Nixon decided to throw democratic Taiwan, a western ally, under the bus and support communist China, an enemy of the US and of western civilization.

I guess he was influenced by dreams of all the little plastic toys and mass-produced junk that would be streaming out of chinese prisons/sweatshops. Or he was bribed. Or maybe his loyalties were elsewhere all along, like most of the presidents since.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Or maybe his loyalties were elsewhere all along, like most of the presidents since.” <<

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BING!