I agree, but in context, Nixon was trying to do it to manipulate the geopolitical situation (kind of breaking the Chicoms away from the Soviets) rather than opening it up for strictly trade purposes. It certainly wasn’t an economic powerhouse back then...
I would be more specific, and specify we should never have granted them Most Favored Nation status. Talk about facilitating being sold the rope to hang yourself.
I am sick of gloBULList turd polishers. China is a disaster of historic magnitude.
He let the camel get its nose inside the tent.
From that point the Useful Idiots could be counted on to do the rest.
Which is something he should have been able to anticipate.
He may have also had no clue about the massive scale of investment that traitors in the west were ready to pump into China.