It's been a bipartisan problem, though the Clintons massively accelerated it, and some of those responsible were motivated by short-sightendess or greed rather than collusion (or in addition to collusion in some cases). The opening of China goes back to an initiative by the Rockefellers (who had funded the Soviet-infiltrated
Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) before WWII and had a strong hand in postwar U.S. Asia policy) and Henry Kissinger (groomed by the Rockefellers early in his career), which yielded a 1960 book by journalist
A. Doak Barnett,
Communist China and Asia: Challenge to American Policy, published by the Council on Foreign Relations. Efforts were made to sell Barnett's ideas to the Kennedy-Johnson administration before Nixon was persuaded to buy into them. Barnett was an old "China Hand" in the mold of the IPR, and in the late 50s had been the Hong Kong director for Chinese studies run by the Ford Foundation, then frequently used to funnel money for both Communist and CIA activities. Barnett continued to provide bad advice on China all the way down to the Clinton administration. "A Clinton adviser recently popped into the hospital where Mr Barnett was receiving treatment. What should be done about China's theft of America's nuclear secrets? China's overall policy, Doak Barnett reflected, was not to be a troublemaker. 'Stay cool.'":
Arthur Doak Barnett, an American mandarin, died on March 17th, aged 77 (March 25, 1999)Every time I read something, like your post, I think of the Battle of Athens, in Tennessee. And wonder why it can’t be done on the national level.