Washington Takes a Hard Look at Its China Approach

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Andrew Browne, The China Rethink; As tensions with China rise, US foreign policy thinkers are dusting off ideas from the Cold War and starting to reconsider the decades-long consensus behind 'constructive engagement' with Beijing. Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2015.
www.wsj.com/articles/can-china-be-contained-1434118534
(the last paragraph:"Opposition to Moscow was the logic that drove Nixon’s opening to China. But even Nixon, a tough-minded realist who was focused on the balance of power, wasn’t sure how his opening to China would ultimately play out. As he told the late New York Times columnist William Safire not long before Nixon’s death in 1994, 'We may have created a Frankenstein' ”)

Excerpts in the windows of print:

China and the US have started to view each other not as partners, competitors or rivals but as adversaries.

China believes the US will never accept the legitimacy of communist rule.

Note:
(a) The essay appeared in page 1 of Saturday's Review section, and spanned a whole page. There is no need to read it, because it talked about something we are familiar, but not to American readers.
(b) the first two paragraphs: "Writing in 1967, at the height of the Cold War, Richard Nixon proclaimed a new American ambition: to 'persuade China that it must change.'  'Taking the long view,' he wrote, 'we simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates and threaten its neighbors.' Four years later, having ascended to the White House, Nixon engineered an 'opening to China' that promised to turn the communist giant into a diplomatic partner, one that would adopt America’s values and maybe even its system of democracy."

WSJ online supplied the link:
Richard M Nixon, Asia After Viet Nam. Foreign Affairs, October 1967.
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ ... asia-after-viet-nam

(c) "The 17th-century German priest Adam Schall got as far as becoming the chief astronomer 钦天监监正 of the Qing dynasty. But he fell from favor, and the Jesuits were later expelled."
(i) Johann Adam Schall von Bell  汤若望
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Adam_Schall_von_Bell
(1592 - 1666)
(ii) "Jesuits were later expelled."  Yes and no; it was not so simple.