A dangerous balance

By Henry C K Liu
Part 1: The song stays the same

Since the end of World War II, the issue of China has extended beyond the confines of foreign policy to stay as a prominent bone of contention in US domestic politics.

Until Richard Nixon's opening to China in 1972, the old anti-communist China lobby was in many ways as controversially powerful as the Israeli lobby. This state of affairs first developed after anti-imperialist revolutionary forces led by the Chinese Communist Party liberated China in 1949 after which Republicans in US partisan politics accused the Democrats of having "lost" China, as if China was their's to lose.