If it was "China, having aided/assisted the US in winning ...", alright, but "having won" I read as implying that China was the primary actor in the whole thing. Maybe I'm just bad at English, but that phrasing reads completely differently to me than it does to you.
This is even less relevant.
It's relevant, along with the third quote, to the point about blaming China more than the US. I'm willing to accept some degree of complicity, but I don't see how "responsible" is appropriate - the US is responsible for American imperialism, not fucking China. And "doomed the international communist movement" again seem to portray China as the primary reason - as if if China hadn't done Reform and Opening-up this somehow would have prevented the fall of the USSR, as if imperialism and capitalism were just on the brink of collapse until China somehow saved them.
as if if China hadn’t done Reform and Opening-up this somehow would have prevented the fall of the USSR, as if imperialism and capitalism were just on the brink of collapse until China somehow saved them.
This interpretation is contradicted by the next sentence and the excerpt from Chuang.
If it was "China, having aided/assisted the US in winning ...", alright, but "having won" I read as implying that China was the primary actor in the whole thing. Maybe I'm just bad at English, but that phrasing reads completely differently to me than it does to you.
It's relevant, along with the third quote, to the point about blaming China more than the US. I'm willing to accept some degree of complicity, but I don't see how "responsible" is appropriate - the US is responsible for American imperialism, not fucking China. And "doomed the international communist movement" again seem to portray China as the primary reason - as if if China hadn't done Reform and Opening-up this somehow would have prevented the fall of the USSR, as if imperialism and capitalism were just on the brink of collapse until China somehow saved them.
This interpretation is contradicted by the next sentence and the excerpt from Chuang.