We're Going to Stop Selling China the Rope, and it's About Time

By Rich Kozlovich

Yesterday Silvio Canto, Jr. published this piece, Tea for two in '72, discussing how 53 years ago Richard Nixon, the seemingly great anti-communist, went to China to shake hands with Mao Tse Tung, one of the greatest monsters of the 20th century, paving a path to China's economic success.

 He went on to say: 

So the question remains. What did we get out of this visit? It's a close call and will continue to be as China expands and builds all that infrastructure in Latin America. On the other hand, maybe China would have grown anyway without the visit. We will never know, but it was a consequential trip and one that will consume analysts for years.

The only analysts who are consumed with searching for the answer are nitwit analysts, RINO's, and Nixonites who glorify him for opening up China to world trade, which I find mind boggling, but I know why, and we'll come back to that.

He goes on to ask what did "we" get out of that?  And then says maybe China would have grown no matter what.  Well, I have the correct response to both those statements. 

No, China would not have grown on it's own.  What would have happened if Kissinger and Nixon didn’t open China to world trade? The CCP would have ended up on the ash heap of history. Who would have taken their place is unknown. 

When Kissinger, Mao and Zhou Enlai were sitting and talking Kissinger said to Mao, the nice thing about this visit is we don't want anything from each other. Mao said if I didn’t want something from you, I wouldn’t have invited you, and if you didn’t want something from me, you shouldn’t have come. Kissinger always was an idiot. 

What did Mao want from the west? After his disastrous economic policies and the amazingly destructive cultural revolution crushed China economically, Mao needed an economy to save the communist party. Kissinger and Nixon obliged, and the west has been, and is now, financing it's own destruction.  I expect to see Trump end that. 

There are up sides to all this. China’s broke, and going more broke by the day.  Their banking system is a mess, and they have a huge national debt they most likely can't repay.   Their expenditures on their military buildup will have the same impact on their economy as it did the economy of the USSR. Their demographic pyramid represents serious trouble for China, and Xi is as economically stupid, and while the numbers are as big, he's as murderous as Mao and Stalin. 

As a side bar it might be interesting to noted both Mao and Stalin were amazingly well read, way beyond most world leaders, and yet, they were both vile, monstrous, murderous, economically retarded, and stupid in so many ways. 

So, why are there so many who think Nixon did a wonderful thing?  I have three thoughts on that.

1. Some are socialist of one form or another, communism is one such form.  
2. Other's just hate America. They call themselves progressives, but as David Horowitz says, "Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out", and as the Canada Free Press says, "Without America there is no free world".   That's their goal, a socialistic, totalitarian worldwide form of governance under the auspices of the United Nations, which is now controlled to a large degree by China.
3. Then there are the multi-national  corporations who benefit from all this, but they do not represent the "we" Canto talks about when he asks "what did "we" get out of that"?  He needs to ask what did the "elite" get out of that, and what has it cost the rest of the world? 
   

There was one thing Lenin got right, and that was when he said when we (the communists) hang the capitalists, the capitalists will sell us the rope to do it.