> risks RED China’s ire... <
Ha! That’s very politically incorrect, and also very true. I’m just a dumb Hunky. But I sure don’t see what lasting political value we gained when Nixon went with his “one-China” policy.
All we seemed to have gained was cheap imports, imports that helped destroy our industrial base.
Vietnam was flanked by China enabling us to leave and prevent the Russian intrusion
Nixon was in China to end the war in Vietnam.