Originally Posted by
SteyrAUG
That is completely untrue.
All Nixon did was end a two front Cold War with the two strongest communist forces in the world. After Nixon China basically ignored us for decades and we did the same.
What changed was Carter giving China "favoured nation" trading status in 1980 which was restricted in 1989 and then fully restored by Bill Clinton in the 90s. In the 1990s, continued "most favoured nation" status for the People's Republic of China by the United States created controversy because of its sales of sensitive military technology and China's serious and continuous persecution of human rights. China's MFN status was made permanent on December 27, 2001.
