I wouldn't call it naivete on the US side - most people with a functioning brain weren't snowed by that. However, the money men who make theirs on the backs of

I wouldn't call it naivete on the US side - most people with a functioning brain weren't snowed by that. However, the money men who make theirs on the backs of success OR failure trumpeted that it was a new dawn for democracy and capitalism in China because it was in their best interests to do so despite what centuries of history and decades of dialog told everybody who would listen.