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Strategic Ambiguity, Clarity or Retreat on Taiwan, ComparedThree ways America can handle Taiwan, side by side in a table, with the price of each and what a conservative should demand of whoever chooses.Nixon went to China and what the 1972 trip teaches about hard bargainingA lifelong anti-communist opened Beijing in 1972 as a strategy to split the communist world, and the lesson is about leverage, not friendship.Seven trade myths both parties repeat, tested against the recordFree-trade slogans and tariff slogans both fail inspection. Seven popular claims are stated fairly and tested against the record.We Bet That Trade Would Make China Free and the Bet Did Not PayBoth parties sold trade as a way to open China's politics. The record shows the Party took the commerce and kept the control.Nine Questions About Chinese Spying and Stolen TechnologyA plain Q and A on the Economic Espionage Act, CFIUS, the Section 301 findings, Huawei, universities and farmland, and what counts as a real threat.