Ten Reasons Why China Matters To You, by US foreign affairs expert Thomas P. M. Barnett.
#10: “Because Nixon went to China and your world was born.”
When President Richard Nixon reopened diplomatic ties with Mao Zedong’s communist China in 1972, he enabled the most profound global economic dynamic of the last half century: China’s historic reemergence as a worldwide market force. Nothing shapes your world today more than China’s rise, and nothing will shape our planet’s future more - for good or ill - than China’s ongoing trajectory.
Only Nixon could go to China.
