Green Party presidential candidate Bill Kreml said on Facebook this week that “the principal rival” of the United States is China.
Kreml wrote, “If you think of it in a historical context, consider what is going on with our relationship to Russia in contrast to what Nixon did with China. Nixon visited China to separate that nation from our chief rival, the Russians, albeit that they were both of the communist faith. Why can’t Obama see that his hostility to Russia, and his siding with Turkey, Qatar, the Israelis, etc. directly contradicts the logic of Nixon? Now, the principal rival is China. And yet Obama has done nothing but destroy the trust that a potential ally, Russia, may have granted to us. This rookie is really hurting us.”
I wonder about this article’s claim of the “logic of Nixon”, particularly in view of the fact that Russia ultimately abandoned communism in 1992, while China did so nearly a decade later. (Keeping a thin veneer of ‘communism’ around for image’s sake). And so far, China has been a lot more successful at its flavor of capitalism than Russia has been.