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...Carter, as for those who framed the original China policies in the wake of Nixon's visit in 1972, the exchange of diplomatic relations formed the cornerstone of a new Asian policy. With that exchange--the playing of the "China card"--the United States seemed to have achieved a major foreign policy objective--that of re-entering the Asian continental political arena...
...Report Card on Carter's Foreign Policy--Panel discussion with Prof. Stanley Hoffman, Prof. Joseph Nye, Prof. Richard Pipes, Prof. Raymond Vernan, and Prof. Michael Mandelbaum, Emerson...
...countries remain beyond the scope of possible U.S. influence because of the confusion of means and ends in U.S. policy formulation. The means have been lost, sacrificed because American policy makers mistook the tools of foreign policy for a positive statement of policy in themselves. Having played its China card, the U.S. holds nothing--no Vietnam card, no Cambodia card, and no control over a game in which it is vitally interested. That lack of control will be a constant for many years to come--until the United States builds up the complex of ties and relations that will permit...
...offspring of heroes often choose between emulation and rejection. In the category of the overreaching emulator, consider George S. Patton III. As an Army colonel in 1968, he sent out a Christmas card: a photograph of a pile of Vietnamese corpses, with the inscription "Peace on Earth." In the Oedipal upmanship of military dynasties, Patton's father, the ivory-pistoled mystic brute of World War II, was a tough act to follow...
...Center for Science and International Affairs: I would agree with Professor Bernstein on that. But there was really a three-pronged reason for normalization. Number one was the inherent Chinese fear of Soviet military forces massed along the Sino-Soviet border, and Chinese desire to play the "American card" in a sort of balance of power game. I think the second reason was clearly Taiwan, to entice the United States away from the Taiwanese--certainly to the detriment of Taiwan, from the Taiwanese viewpoint. The third reason is that the standard of living in China is still very, very...