The Untold Story of How America Inadvertedly Rescued the CCP From Collapse | Xi Van Fleet
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1972 was the height of the Cultural Revolution. “Everything was in ruins…No economy, no jobs, no nothing. We lived in extreme poverty,” says Xi Van Fleet, who was a high school student at the time.
Then she heard the shocking news: the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, was coming to visit China. For her entire life, she’d been taught America was China’s deadly enemy. Now the U.S. was opening the door to Beijing diplomatically and, in time, economically.
This was a godsend for the CCP. With China’s economy in shambles and a split with the Soviet Union that had brought the two communist powers to the brink of nuclear war, Mao Zedong suddenly found an unwitting partner in Washington.
“Sure enough, help was on the way. And that was no other than the President of the United States: Richard Nixon.”
Xi Van Fleet is the author of “Made in America: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat.” Show less
It was 1972 and I was in high school that we learned Nixon was coming to China.
We just could not believe if Americans were shocked.
We were just imagine how shocked we were because since childhood we're taught America is our deadly enemy because America wants to destroy us and so we'll do everything to defend China against our enemy.
And then you tell me President Nixon was going to visit us and I just could not get our mind around it.
And that was the height of the Cultural Revolution when everything was in ruins, absolutely in ruins and there's no economy.
And a few years after that, I was sent to the countryside after I graduated from high school.
Why?
There's no economy, no jobs, no nothing.
We live in extreme poverty.
But CCP was saved.
Saved by no other than the President of the United States, Richard Nixon.
And Trump rightly called that was the biggest mistake he made.
Yes, that is true.
He saved CCP.
He saved the CCP from the ruins.
How?
He opened China up.
And at that time, it's even worse than just economic ruins in America.
In the late 50s.
In China.
In China.
The time was just so crucial because China at that time was facing the absolute total collapse internally.
There's no economy.
Everyone was living in extreme poverty.
But more than that, in the late 1950s, there is a big split.
Split between China and Soviet Union.
And it get worse.
By the time of 1972, by the time that before Nixon visited China, the two powers were almost at the blink of nuclear war.
Can you imagine?
Mao was like a threatened both internally, externally.
Only this time it was his former boss, Soviet Union.
And he needed help.
He absolutely need help.
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Sure enough, the help was on the way.
And that was no other than the President of the United States, Richard Nixon.
So it opened up.
Opened it up.
And all the crisis eased.
And soon after that, China got into the Security Council of United Nations because the Americans did not do anything about it.
So turned around and then absolutely was saved and escaped all the immediate threat of being bombed by a nuclear weapon.