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US officials: "We realize that efforts, implied or explicit, to shape or change the PRC over several decades did not succeed" (www.whitehouse.gov)

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

That decision was made because US was shitting their pants that USSR and China would become aligned as a common adversary, sort like what's happening with Russia and China currently.