Wrong... it was Nixon who opened up diplomatic ties and enabled China to become the worldwide economic power that it is.
Every president since then has been trying to manage the inevitable threats to stability that come when you open the door to the world's cash and technology reserves to a country only recently beginning to enter the industrial age.
Don't forget that China has languished 50 years behind the other 2 world powers in many key areas of industrial development. They're not evil... they're just trying to make it through till tomorrow with some internal sense of order and security. There are always going to be bad apples in the bunch that use the opportunity granted by those instabilities to raise a ruckus inside and outside of their borders.
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