I am appalled by American and European naivete with regard to China.
The mistakes the West made with regard to the Middle Kingdom have come to haunt it: Here are, merely, a few of the top hits:
1. Nixon and Kissinger& #39;s overtures to China to drive a wedge between it and the Soviet Union.
2. China getting the Security Council seat and the veto.
3. Acquiescing to the banishment of Taiwan from the UN.
4. Clinton& #39;s advocacy to facilitate China& #39;s entry into the WTO.
5. Successive American, European leaders and intellectuals who deluded themselves into thinking that a capitalist China would become (ha) democratic and open!
6. Transfer of technology through the rapaciousness of Western corporations who sold the family silver to get a share of the market.
It is not too late, but if the Europeans want to survive as anything other than a vassal state, they will have to stop thinking about their profits and start thinking about strategic security.
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