In an article at Worlcrunch about the present Chinese leadership by Andrej Mrevlje, there’s an excellent summary of world history over the last 20 years in just two sentences:
Joining the WTO helped China grow enormously. They were able to create their middle class while the West’s shrunk dramatically, and then U.S. voters vengefully elected populist President Donald Trump in 2016.
I’m also reminded of a quote, spuriously attributed to Lenin: a capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him.
So Nixon went to China in “73 to counterbalance Moscow, and Trump is vilified for even glancing in in the direction of Moscow when we need a re-balance.
I guess they hated Nixon too.