Posted on 07/06/2021 8:47:44 PM PDT by eekitsagreek
Speaking at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, on July 23, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempted a difficult balancing act. On the one hand, Pompeo repudiated more than four decades of American policy toward China. Pompeo argued that the days of the U.S. holding out hope for political liberalization was over. And he called on free nations around the world to lock arms against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) various schemes and threats.
On the other hand, Pompeo said he did not want to “seem too eager to tear down President Nixon’s legacy.” While Nixon’s presidency ended in disgrace, he is still widely considered something of a foreign policy success—the man who initiated America’s great opening to China. Pompeo didn’t want to directly undermine Nixon’s supposed accomplishment. “I want to be clear that he did what he believed was best for the American people at the time, and he may well have been right,” Pompeo said of Nixon’s diplomacy with the Chinese.
Pompeo’s use of the word “may” was telling. Maybe Nixon was right—or maybe he wasn’t. Given the substance of his speech, it is quite possible that Pompeo thinks Nixon was wrong.
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I can only imagine what Nixon would be thinking about what China has now become, and what it means for the US and the world.
Duh.
And China was even worse in Nixon’s time and he and Kissinger knew it.
Yes, he was. And many of us said so at the time.
Recognize the ROC.
Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the UN.The fact that a US president (Carter) implemented the 15th communist goal on that list of 45 communist goals for the USA marks this as a tremendous mistake.
He said that with a straight face? Nixon's legacy is big and bigger government. Even Noam Chomsky calls him one of the great 'liberal' (sic) presidents.
I’m thinking that, since the globalists have been laying plans for almost 200 years, it’s a mistake to assume that Nixon was being naive. He may have been laying plans and being well-paid for those plans.
Don’t leave out Russia.
Yes, of course he was wrong to engage China just as Reagan was wrong to give illegals amnesty. Two worst decisions in the past 50 years. Add to that Bush Junior’s decision to invade Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 when clearly it was his Saudi friends that were behind the attacks. Heck, we’ve had a string of bad Republican decisions that have cost us dearly.
Nixon was probably better than McGovern but who is to say?
Nixon also gave us the 18 year old voter.
Nixon went to China as a counter weight to Russia.
At that time we were tied down in Vietnam and at a strategic disadvantage to the USSR.
The Soviets later fell apart and China became stronger.
No one could foresee that and no one can be sure it wouldn’t have happened anyway.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182797/empires-of-the-weak
written by a china fan
Good points.
And hindsight is always 20/20.
China used money we’ve given to them through unfair trade to grow from, at best, a regional threat to a global threat.
We were gullible to think that evil can be reformed.
I think it was a move against the Soviets more than anything. We didn’t open up trade to China until much later.
Henry Kissinger said: every solution is also an entry ticket to a set of new problems.
Richard Nixon was the immoral jerk who supported Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh, forcing Indira Gandhi to become a humanitarian hero. Apart from that he gave us wage and price controls, and the DDT ban that Dr Michael Crichton estimates killed 50 million Africans from malaria. The opening to China was just the worst of Nixon’s many disastrous mistakes. Republican apologists for Nixon are clueless fools.
Agreed.
We allied with the USSR to defeat Germany, Stalin was evil but it needed to be done.
Then we allied with China to defeat the USSR. Mao was evil but it needed to be done.
Who will we ally with to defeat China?
India ?
The expanding Gobi Desert that is a few hundred miles away from Beijing and is getting closer every year?
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