Kissinger’s Opening to China Will Haunt American Politics in 2024
After the late Henry Kissinger orchestrated the US “opening to China,” that country’s gradual embrace of economic reforms succeeded in making it the world’s second-largest economy. But the story did not end well for American workers, who would be ill-served by the continuation of Kissingerian realpolitik under Donald Trump.
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BOSTON – Even harsh critics of Henry Kissinger concede that US President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 changed geopolitics forever. Before Kissinger orchestrated that diplomatic opening, American leaders framed the world as “capitalism vs. communism,” and anyone with communist friends was liable to be labeled a dangerous “Red.” After Kissinger, undiluted Communist Party of China control was allowed to thrive within the global market system.