> I'd imagine those who grew up before 1990s and after aren't fans either. What India became for the US in the 2010s is what China was for the US in the 70s an

> I'd imagine those who grew up before 1990s and after aren't fans either. What India became for the US in the 2010s is what China was for the US in the 70s and 80s - a regional power to help blunt a major competitor. Nixon's detente with China was done in order to blunt the USSR - with whom China had a border conflict that almost turned into a war in 1968 (sound familiar?) American soldiers were even posted in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia manning signals collection stations aimed at the USSR, and the US and China began technology transfers and shared research in the 1980s with the signing of the US-China Science and Technology Pact in 1979. The US-China relationship collapsed with the fall of the USSR, as that was the primary impetus for relations.