The US is in withdrawal from 4 decades of policy that intended to bring China out of the 3rd world and into the first. The motivation was to reduce the threat o

The US is in withdrawal from 4 decades of policy that intended to bring China out of the 3rd world and into the first. The motivation was to reduce the threat of nuclear war and at the same time, create a major new market for trade. Those positive intentions did not foresee what China would actually become, and even if US administrations all along could have foreseen it, they may have persisted, believing that reducing nuclear threat was worthwhile, even with the current adversarial outcome. The line that got crossed that I don't believe anyone anticipated was the genocide of entire ethnic and religious populations. Those horrors have a moral weight that counterbalances the threat of nuclear war. We have no choice but to completely decouple, and what's more, may still find ourselves in the shooting war we were trying to evade.