Comments on: China’s Love Affair with Richard Nixon http://www.teachabroadchina.com/china-richard-nixon-kissinger-1972-love/ Home of the Teach Abroad China Alliance Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:54:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Robert Vance http://www.teachabroadchina.com/china-richard-nixon-kissinger-1972-love/#comment-15774 Robert Vance Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:21:03 +0000 http://www.teachabroadchina.com/?p=414#comment-15774 @J. macklby, I have a little theory that Washington knew very well how sick Mao was and decided that it was time to 'get their foot in the door' before the 'Great Leader' died. Unfortunately, he survived for a few more years but I do believe that Nixon's visit did have some impact on Deng Xiaoping's policies later on. It certainly did alot to let the Chinese people know that we were interested in being friends with them even if that particular visit didn't help them much ... @J. macklby,

I have a little theory that Washington knew very well how sick Mao was and decided that it was time to ‘get their foot in the door’ before the ‘Great Leader’ died. Unfortunately, he survived for a few more years but I do believe that Nixon’s visit did have some impact on Deng Xiaoping’s policies later on. It certainly did alot to let the Chinese people know that we were interested in being friends with them even if that particular visit didn’t help them much …

]]> By: J.macklby http://www.teachabroadchina.com/china-richard-nixon-kissinger-1972-love/#comment-15748 J.macklby Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:34:59 +0000 http://www.teachabroadchina.com/?p=414#comment-15748 Nixon's visit to China was certainly not a valadation of 'Great Leader' Mao's brutal regime, though it conferred on Mao a new credibility that he did not deserve.....Mao reached out to Nixon only when he realized that Maoism had failed to gain any real traction in the world , not even in North Vietnam. Nixon needed to be perceived as a peacemaking world statesman and diplomat as he faced the American electorate in 1972 Also, though Nixon's visit did bring a few more Westerners into China, the country remained a vast prison camp for all the Chinese, save for a small coterie of bootlickers whose 'revolutionary purity 'could be trusted long enough to let them temporarily out of China for unsupervised family visits. The increased Western presence in China did not have any benefits for the Chinese people as long as the monster Mao was still breathing Nixon’s visit to China was certainly not a valadation of ‘Great Leader’ Mao’s brutal regime, though it conferred on Mao a new credibility that he did not deserve…..Mao reached out to Nixon only when he realized that Maoism had failed to gain any real traction in the world , not even in North Vietnam. Nixon needed to be perceived as a peacemaking world statesman and diplomat as he faced the American electorate in 1972
Also, though Nixon’s visit did bring a few more Westerners into China, the country remained a vast prison camp for all the Chinese, save for a small coterie of bootlickers whose ‘revolutionary purity ‘could be trusted long enough to let them temporarily out of China for unsupervised family visits.
The increased Western presence in China did not have any benefits for the Chinese people as long as the monster Mao was still breathing

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