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Trade & Xi blog
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.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.