Lee Kuan Yew and Richard Nixon exchange views on China's future, April 10, 1973

[@brianarbenz7206]

Does it start, "Yew, you, Yew, you certainly have a better feeling for the PRC..." ? Or is that, "You, Yew, you, you certainly have a better feeling for the PRC..." ?

[@expand9487]

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[@mirady9675]

It's just four "You"s... Lee is his surname.

[@bamboomiracle]

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[@derrickruffin5479]

This was the beginning of the demise of manufacturing and millions of jobs in the USA How soon we forget. Thanks to Richard M. Nixon and the reckless right.

[@misterdd7239]

You guys made shit tons of monies from cheap sweat workshop with poor working conditions. Do you think Americans would ever work like that? lol.

[@Paelorian]

It was Bill Clinton, not a man of the right, who permanently normalized trade relations with the People's Republic of China, leading America to manufacture it's goods in PRC factories. The U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000. Since then, common foods in American stores are not manufactured in America under American labor laws, but by unfree exploited workers in an authoritarian slave state that has killed more of it's own people than any government that has ever existed and continues to execute more of it's people than the rest of the world put together. Letting China produce everything makes our people poor and miserable and funds the most destructive governments in the world-remember that China is also propping up and responsible for North Korea being a national slave colony. But at least we can legally buy t-shirts made from genuine slave cotton handpicked by Uyghur slaves in government captivity in Xianjing, China! Prices at Walmart seem low! The civilized world needs to stop funding China. We do not want them to become the most influential country in the world. I'd rather the jobs come home to the US, where there are plenty of unemployed people capable of working but who lack opportunities. It's only more expensive to manufacture here because we outlaw slavery and demand the human rights of workers be respected. We shouldn't cut corners on that. But if we're going to ignore our own standards forbidding exploitation by moving the jobs abroad, it would be better to use workers in India than China. Even another communist state like Vietnam would be much better than communist China. There are poor people the world over who would be glad to recieve manufacturing jobs currently going to China.

[@Truth433]

Manufacturing jobs? It wasn't China who wants Apple to set up factory there, it was Steve jobs who decided to move the factory to China .

[@davidmoss2576]

Without enlisting China the Soviet Union would still be around today.

[@jstasiak2262]

This discussion is entirely about the PRC’s impact on Asia-Pacific security. It has nothing whatsoever to do with trade or migration of jobs. Nixon governed as a Progressive, not as a Conservative, because that was what the times demanded. In fact, it can be strongly argued that Nixon was the last “liberal” US president. ALL of his successors, including Clinton, Obama, and Biden, governed well to the right of Nixon. In 1973, the Republican Party had an ascendent Progressive wing (Rockefeller, Percy, Javits, Romney (Mitt’s dad), Chafee, Scranton, Weicker, Snowe, Smith, Jeffords, and, of course, Earl Warren. Even Prescott Bush, 41’s dad and 43’s grand dad, was a progressive.) that had a Progressive agenda. The neo-liberal economic policies that wrecked this country didn’t start until Reagan who did govern as a conservative and jerked the country and the Republican Party far to the right. Nixon’s engagement with China was based solely upon geo-strategic, balance of power considerations, not economic machinations. In fact, Reagan was opposed to engaging “Red China” on ideological grounds. Nixon was not part of your “reckless right.”