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I think they always knew this was not going to happen. But how do sell trading with a communist nation after 50 years of Red scare.


There's nothing communist about the CCP any more


Kishore Mahbubani very aptly describes the CCP as the Chinese Civilization Party. That is a much more accurate name.


Your average American voter doesn't know what communism is or whether China is or isn't it.

The might have some notion of "big bad central state", and China was and remains that.

In any event, some rhetoric to grease the wheels politically absolutely was in order.




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