> >after the ussr fell, the chinese commies saw the writing on the wall and sold their underclass into economic slavery to the west in exchange for being allowed to stay in power > you got the timeline all wrong, retard. it was richard nixon who went to china in 1972 and gave mao a handjob and promised to open american markets to chinese goods because we needed to split china and russia to allow us to leave vietnam. the only reason we won the fucking cold war was because of the sino-soviet split negotiated by nixon and kissinger you ignorant fuck. that was stage 1 stage 2 was letting china into the wto in 2000, which put it on steroids. before that you'd still see a lot of "made in taiwan" stuff but not much "made in china". that was done because these same neocons were so sure that the trade would cultivate a wealthy middle class in china, who would then demand reforms and get communists out of power. i remember debating this with undergrads at lse who were so sure this was going to happen (and then china would invade russia also lmao) and i told them it was retarded and naive. in reality these retards have got everything completely wrong for 30 years yet still they are very cocksure.
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