Events that displease China’s diplomats are usually good for the United States, and this week they were hopping mad. At the ...

Nixon’s formulation of this doctrine while the Vietnam War was still raging signified that the US intended to extricate itself from that war. It also signaled a desire for rapprochement with China.

Nixon could never trust Mao to be a great leader or a saint, but he could trust him to act in his nation’s own interests. Thus it was that Nixon went to China and changed the Cold War forever.

Nixon, faced with ending the Vietnam War, saw the Soviet Union and China as the centers of strategic gravity in setting ...

He credits Nixon with using a reduced power footprint in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to accomplish diplomatic magic. Plus, Ramaswamy almost shouts, he got us out of Vietnam!