“Nixon in China was a fool and subsequent presidents have also given away the store.”
I beg to differ on former President Nixon.
I believe his stated intentions of bringing Red China out of the previous century was true and accurate.
I don’t think RMN could have foreseen the globalist corporation and politicians backstabbing the United States like they ended up doing. Nor could anyone have imagined we would give away the store, as you put it, like we ended up doing.
This is my conclusion from notes I’ve seen from the Nixon archives. But clearly I do not know everything there is to know about the Nixon presidency.
The real culprit, if there was one, was Henry Kissinger. He was with President Nixon on this every step of the way. Personally, I think Kissinger had a different agenda all along.
I would say that the early 1990’s began making China what it is today, and making the United States what it is today as well (although we are in the process of changing that).
Interesting observations! Certainly true about Kissinger, and I’d forgotten his role in the whole thing.