The Ghosts of Kissenger's Optimism

Five book publishers were recently kidnapped and repatriated back to a foreign land. Millions of fishermen along a certain region’s coastal waters float idly as a foreign nation’s coast guard inspect their ships every day for entry and exit in international waters. Economic competition from one nation that has seemingly abandoned the laws of rationality has collapsed major induries around the world with a flood of never ending debt and deflation. Everywhere, freedom recedes as state owned enterprises having now become majority stake holders in foreign enterprises impose restrictions on hiring and promotions beyond its borders in a bid to stifle criticism. Firms of global prominence are now owned out right by this government. If these scenarios haven’t yet all materialized in 2016, there are ominous signs that within the next decades they will materialize in some form or another. As Communist China’s position within the world system is fundamentally upended by decades of economic change it is time to reassess our engagement with this nation. The past decades have produced a very distinctive US foreign policy towards the PRC and taking stock of its results in the short- and long-term can empower US decision makers with a new framework for the 21st century.

Kissinger: Strategic Rapprochement

-intent, effects, long-term consequences

We must start with Kissenger, the master of US realpolitik. After decades of high-intensity regional conflicts borne of the underlying conditions of the Cold War, Kissenger paved the way for Nixon’s landmark visit // . The relationship was based on a fundamental need to contain the Soviet Union. The us was just coming off of the Vietnam war where domestic strife and the loss of,lives and material in Vietnam was sapping domestic commitment to Vietnam.

Clinton: Post-Cold War Optimism [WTO]

Rollback and Sustained Competition

Kuka, legal system, military competition, a recession of freedom.