[dainbramaged]

Copied directly from bushchinafoundation.org:
President George H. W. Bush had a special connection with China, one that is unique among U.S. presidents. As the director of the U.S. liaison office to the People’s Republic of China from 1974 to 1975, President Bush was the United States’ first envoy to the country. During the 15 months he lived and worked in Beijing, he engaged the Chinese people in a very deep and human way. He came to know not only the country’s top leaders, but also a wide cross-section of average citizens. This experience of living in China and interacting daily with its people as “the bicycling ambassador,” as he was known, shaped his views on China for the rest of his life.
President Bush regarded the U.S.-China relationship as the most important bilateral relationship in the world. He viewed China’s development as beneficial, not harmful, to the United States, and he emphatically rejected the idea that China is an adversary of the U.S. and the zero-sum mindset that tends to accompany such an assessment. He firmly believed that only by working constructively with China can the United States realize its own full potential; and by the same token, only by working constructively with the United States can China realize its own full potential. President Bush’s lifelong view was that a positive and constructive relationship between the two countries is in the best interest of both the United States and China as well as the entire global community.

[Jan_Sobieski]

If I read the Bush Foundation statement correctly, George HW Bush was in complete agreement with Chairman Mao Tse Tung! I wish I would have known this in the 80s-2000s

[rxh4n1]

Somewhat explains the reason for his weak response to the Tien an Men Square protests and massacre.