[Right_Wing_Madman]

He should have been our biggest advocate against engagement with Red China.

Instead, Friedman was the biggest foreign influencer in China. He single-handedly convinced China to dump their communist economic system. Deng Xiaoping worshiped Friedman.

The United States, today, now has to learn lessons from China.

[Olog-hai]

… In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity.

— The Principles of Communism

… (I)n general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

— Karl Marx

Red China did not dump their economic system; all of their “corporations” are state-owned and always have been. They were gleeful that the “West” was allowing the free trade, to the end of empowering the CCP.

The Uniparty has learned way too much from Red China, in fact.