[HN Gopher] Myths and Realities of Ping-Pong Diplomacy
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       Myths and Realities of Ping-Pong Diplomacy
        
       Author : Thevet
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-04-30 06:29 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
       | Starting with Nixon, China has been diplomatically genius. Unlike
       | the Soviet Union, they avoided being isolated from the West. As a
       | result, they were able to acquire the needed technological and
       | business expertise from the West. In addition, they figured out
       | how to open the economy enough for it to grow well and avoid the
       | stagnation of the Soviet Union, while at the same time
       | maintaining control by the Communist Party.
       | 
       | Also, another brilliant move was building enough nuclear weapons
       | to serve as an effective deterrent while not building so many
       | that a nuclear arms race is triggered.
       | 
       | And they managed to do this without any major hot wars.
       | 
       | Whether or not you agree with the Chinese government, their
       | diplomacy and foreign policy for the last several decades have
       | been stellar.
        
         | temp8964 wrote:
         | It is not as that brilliant. Mao wanted to be the leader of the
         | international communists, he was not happy with Stalin. China
         | was in confrontation with the Soviets. At the same time,
         | China's economy was at the edge of collapsing, so CCP need to
         | be friend with the west. At the time Nixon needed to score a
         | Foreign Police achievement. So it happened.
         | 
         | But, China is really good at screw up the west. China has
         | always being spread the misinformation about the west to
         | Chinese people all the time, even when China and the west was
         | having the best relationship. At the same time, as a deeply
         | corrupted power, the CCP knows how to play with the powerful
         | families in the west. So there are so many people in powerful
         | positions support China / China-West trades, when they clearly
         | know China has being undermining the west interest through
         | trade all the time.
        
       | daodedickinson wrote:
       | Blackmailing and framing must be easy for people who don't care.
       | From there, I guess it's how well you can cultivate an audience
       | for it?
       | 
       | I wish states had left us alone. Some of the much older abuses
       | are "public" like from Montreal, a few are well known and even
       | joked about, the rest continue to rule the media ecosystem over
       | me. Multiple music videos are released under the name "Billie
       | Ellish" depicting forcible injections and it still doesn't get
       | discussed.
       | 
       | Another lesson for us poor and abused.
        
         | no_wizard wrote:
         | I am interested in what you're trying to get at here, but I
         | must admit, I am at a complete loss as to what you're trying to
         | make a point about, other than a very general _those in society
         | without high visible status still aren 't given proper
         | attention_, or at least in that ballpark.
         | 
         | Do you mean the US? What exactly do you mean about Montreal?
        
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