Fatal Delusions of Western Man
By Patrick J. Buchanan
“We got China wrong. Now what?†ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post.
“Remember how American engagement with China was going to make that communist backwater more like the democratic, capitalist West?†asked Charles Lane in his opening sentence.
America’s elites believed that economic engagement and the opening of U.S. markets would cause the People’s Republic to coexist benignly with its neighbors and the West.
Read more at: http://buchanan.org/blog/fatal-delusions-western-man-128823
The article goes on to say we gave China, "most favored nation" status, which may have been an error. Good read.
