The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation.
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Unlike the West, modern China has seldom used brute force to access resources or expand markets — except, notably, in the South China Sea.
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If the U.S. made a deal with Maoist China in the 1970s, it can surely cut one with North Korea today.
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The nuclear deal with Iran, like Nixon’s opening to China in 1972, has the potential to be a geopolitical game changer — if it can get through Congress first.