For better or worse, how important was it that Nixon talked to Mao and normalized relations between the two nations?

  • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Would it be fair to say that the normalization of relations between USA and China since the late 1970s (and subsequent Dengist reforms) at least abated the threat of a US invasion, at a time when China was only just industrializing and did not have the military power to defend itself that it does today?