Wishful thinking about Red China

[eagle7-31]

America Must Go Beyond Wishful Thinking About China - American Thinker



America and the West’s policy of “constructive engagement” with Communist China make up the most egregious case of wishful thinking in history. For almost fifty years, the West has pumped trillions of dollars into the Chinese experiment and now has little to show for it except a much stronger China. Fortunately, many Americans are now waking up to the dangers of dealing with the Chinese dragon. It is not a moment too soon.

Ever since President Richard Nixon’s infamous 1972 trip to China, the West has deceived itself into believing that being nice to Red China is a win-win proposition. The policy’s underlying reasoning was that opening China up would expose the communist nation to freedom, which would induce its dictators to change and do what is best for the Chinese people. Alas, how wrong the West has been.

 

[Moonglow]

You think making a profit in untouched markets is a way of being nice?

 

[eagle7-31]

You think making a profit in untouched markets is a way of being nice?

If that was the only issue at stake maybe. But with China its a whole lot more.

 

[Moonglow]

You think making a profit in untouched markets is a way of being nice?

If that was the only issue at stake maybe. But with China its a whole lot more.

Sure it is, it's all about revenge for the opium wars by Britain and the US, European and US imperialism and colonialism, the loss of Hong Kong, the Boxer rebellion and whatever else they can get steamed over.

 

[TheGreenHornet]

America Must Go Beyond Wishful Thinking About China - American Thinker



America and the West’s policy of “constructive engagement” with Communist China make up the most egregious case of wishful thinking in history. For almost fifty years, the West has pumped trillions of dollars into the Chinese experiment and now has little to show for it except a much stronger China. Fortunately, many Americans are now waking up to the dangers of dealing with the Chinese dragon. It is not a moment too soon.

Ever since President Richard Nixon’s infamous 1972 trip to China, the West has deceived itself into believing that being nice to Red China is a win-win proposition. The policy’s underlying reasoning was that opening China up would expose the communist nation to freedom, which would induce its dictators to change and do what is best for the Chinese people. Alas, how wrong the West has been.

Red China has played the Western World since Mao took over and Russia as well......aka made suckers out of them....Nixon was smart in ways but Mao played and used him.

Western Intelligence never got a good take on Mao....never understood just how ruthless he was.

The famed American author and alleged expert on China....Edgar Snow was also played and used by Mao.

Chairman Mao's Reign of Terror—Finally the Truth Comes Out

Our moral imagination is haunted by monsters--and the greatest aspect of this horror is the fact that so many monsters are real. Is the world ready to face the reality of Mao Zedong?...

albertmohler.com

I recently read....... Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and her husband Jon Halliday and have been recommending it to anyone that wants the truth about Mao and China.

 

[TheGreenHornet]

You think making a profit in untouched markets is a way of being nice?

If that was the only issue at stake maybe. But with China its a whole lot more.

Exactly........When the World Opened the Gates of China

 

[georgephillip]

America Must Go Beyond Wishful Thinking About China - American Thinker



America and the West’s policy of “constructive engagement” with Communist China make up the most egregious case of wishful thinking in history. For almost fifty years, the West has pumped trillions of dollars into the Chinese experiment and now has little to show for it except a much stronger China. Fortunately, many Americans are now waking up to the dangers of dealing with the Chinese dragon. It is not a moment too soon.

Ever since President Richard Nixon’s infamous 1972 trip to China, the West has deceived itself into believing that being nice to Red China is a win-win proposition. The policy’s underlying reasoning was that opening China up would expose the communist nation to freedom, which would induce its dictators to change and do what is best for the Chinese people. Alas, how wrong the West has been.

APRIL 2, 2021
China Isn’t the Problem, Neoliberalism Is

"The ascendance of Wall Street, and of a managerial bureaucracy (PMC) more generally, largely explains the political realignments that have been playing out in the U.S.

"Beginning in the 1970s, the American political class made decisions at the behest of business interests and oligarchs to restructure the U.S. economy in ways intended to shift the balance of political and economic power towards capital.

"Finance was, and still is, the method of affecting this transfer of power.

"However, the current epoch of finance capitalism has run its course.

"Its logic has been lost.

"The threats to the neoliberal order are now internal to it."

Fifty years ago US elites conceived a plan to roll back the New Deal.

They expected China to accept the usual colonial status.

They were wrong about that too.

 

[PoliticalChic]

America Must Go Beyond Wishful Thinking About China - American Thinker



America and the West’s policy of “constructive engagement” with Communist China make up the most egregious case of wishful thinking in history. For almost fifty years, the West has pumped trillions of dollars into the Chinese experiment and now has little to show for it except a much stronger China. Fortunately, many Americans are now waking up to the dangers of dealing with the Chinese dragon. It is not a moment too soon.

Ever since President Richard Nixon’s infamous 1972 trip to China, the West has deceived itself into believing that being nice to Red China is a win-win proposition. The policy’s underlying reasoning was that opening China up would expose the communist nation to freedom, which would induce its dictators to change and do what is best for the Chinese people. Alas, how wrong the West has been.

Worth reading.

 

[22lcidw]

You think making a profit in untouched markets is a way of being nice?

If that was the only issue at stake maybe. But with China its a whole lot more.

Sure it is, it's all about revenge for the opium wars by Britain and the US, European and US imperialism and colonialism, the loss of Hong Kong, the Boxer rebellion and whatever else they can get steamed over.

This is no game. So you believe we should take our licks and be "guilted" into relinquishing our supreme advantage in the world? Its happening slowly now at this point.

 

[Moonglow]

You think making a profit in untouched markets is a way of being nice?

If that was the only issue at stake maybe. But with China its a whole lot more.

Sure it is, it's all about revenge for the opium wars by Britain and the US, European and US imperialism and colonialism, the loss of Hong Kong, the Boxer rebellion and whatever else they can get steamed over.

This is no game. So you believe we should take our licks and be "guilted" into relinquishing our supreme advantage in the world? Its happening slowly now at this point.

I never mention anything you are suggesting.