China and the West

A chronic Western malady: Getting China wrong

A chronic western malady: Getting China wrong*

Almost from the beginning, we in the West have been getting China wrong.

For a brief moment at the end of the Vietnam war, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger thought that they were getting it right when they moved to bring China in from the cold.

Even that was, in part, an attempt to exploit the fact that China and the Soviet Union – both nominally communist – were beginning to see the world differently. The hope was that China could be enticed into the Western camp. The West’s expect…

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