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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFellow DUers, please tell me why should we not compare Trump-Kim summit to Nixon's visit to China?
Just want to know. Thanks.
manor321
(3,344 posts)So there is that.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Saboburns
(2,807 posts)We are at war with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)how to blow up the old global order to establish a new white nationalist order in his ear.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Freethinker65
(10,118 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)John1956PA
(2,681 posts)In 1972, China was firmly implanted as a thermo-nuclear power. The goal at that time was for each country to ratchet down their mutual distrust and thereby lessen the chance for war.
snowybirdie
(5,254 posts)China was opened to trade, which took them from a rogue, repressive and secret nation into an economic powerhouse which tries to rival our economy and overtake us. Thanks Dick!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)like Trump
mythology
(9,527 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)Nixon wanted to use China as a hedge against the USSR and China wanted to use us as a hedge against the USSR. Nixon didn't go there to try to get them to give up their nukes.
Turbineguy
(37,427 posts)he did have a functioning brain.
DFW
(54,527 posts)North Korea does not have about 1/6 of the world's population
North Korea does not represent the potential to be among our top three trading partners
North Korea is not an economically independent entity
North Korea will not gradually relinquish the cultural and political stranglehold on everyone within its borders
North Korea does not have the capacity to penetrate every country in the third world, buy up their raw materials cheaply, do some token building up of their infrastructure, and then cleverly saddle them with unrepayable debts that leave them beholden to North Korea for decades.
North Korea does not have a space program that rivals ours, and can compete with it, and nor do they have the potential to develop one.
In fact, the one thing North Korea DOES have the potential to offer is tourism of all kinds. Wellness tourism cheap. Medical tourism cheap. And, of course, lot of unspoiled (so far) beach and mountain areas that could be turned into posh resorts the locals could work in but never afford to stay at (à la Cuba). Come to think of it, that last might be of interest to anyone who builds and maintains posh resorts. Do you know anyone who fits that description?
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)He understood foreign policy and had a brain. He also did not want to build hotels on every inch of real estate in the world.