All you had to say was China sucks. They're the worst thing to hit the civilized world since the USSR.
A little thread drift, but I listened to part of "The Great Wager" on NPR yesterday. It's a multi part podcast about Nixon, and his plans to open up China to the west. China, and the Russians hated each other in the 70's, and all kinds of behind the scenes, cloak and dagger, fuckery was going on.
Mao's China was a third world country when Nixon made his historic trip, and created the path we're now treading. From a Chinese woman who grew up in Beijing: she, and her sister would count cars in Beijing for fun (early 70's). If they saw more than about 10 cars in a single day that would be a huge deal. China was an impoverished nation, no universities, no middle class, no progress, factories, if they were even open produced almost nothing. No capitalism per Maos blood stained orders.
Before Nixons grand plan had really been developed, a Russian spy set a "chit chat" lunch date with one of Nixons ambassadors. In one of those power broker, Washington haunts, the Russian asked the American, what would America think of Russia removing all of Chinas nuclear capabilities ?
The American froze in mid bite, and made an immediate bee line for the Oval Office with the news that Russia was signaling they were cool with a nuclear war with China. That apparently caused an immediate defcon alert, and the US made ready for a possible war. From the little bit of the teaser they presented, they seem to be positing Nixons plan was then to cozy up to the Chinese to keep the Russians from carrying out that plan. I'd never read anything about that encounter or the results, but it seems it had the effect of pushing our diplomatic advances to China into overdrive. Thanks Brezhnev.
It's always been hailed as a hugely successful, diplomatic event, but in reality may have just been the opening of Pandas box or Pandoras box... whichever... Who that success benefitted seems to be on Chinas' side based on what they've now become.