US's 3 Bold China Strategies That Failed Spectacularly 🇺🇸

Toward the end of his life, former US President Richard Nixon admitted a secret anxiety: His greatest foreign policy triumph — a Cold War détente with China aimed at countering the Soviet Union — “may have created a Frankenstein.”

Nixon’s was the first of three big bets the US made on China in the modern era; all had unintended consequences, Semafor's Andy Browne argues in his latest column.

Read it here: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/30/2025/the-us-made-three-bets-on-china-all-backfired

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