{"id":11448,"date":"2018-10-12T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11448"},"modified":"2018-10-12T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T21:07:57","slug":"a-new-era-for-the-china-russia-u-s-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-new-era-for-the-china-russia-u-s-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Era for the China-Russia-U.S. Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">N<\/span>early a half-century ago, President Richard Nixon\u2019s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, established a successful U.S. strategy for dealing with America\u2019s two most dangerous rivals. He sought closer ties to both the Soviet Union, with its more than 7,000 nuclear weapons, and Communist China, with the world\u2019s largest population.<\/p>\n<p>Kissinger\u2019s approach was sometimes called \u201ctriangulation.\u201d But distilled down to its essence, the phrase meant ensuring that China and Russia were not friendlier to each other than each was to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the Soviet Union was much stronger than China at the time, Kissinger especially courted Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was similar to British and French policy in the mid-1930s of discouraging Adolf Hitler\u2019s Third Reich from becoming the partner of Josef Stalin\u2019s equally powerful and dangerous Soviet Union. Unfortunately, that effort failed, and Nazi-Soviet cooperation led to their joint invasion of Poland in 1939 and the outbreak of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>We forgot Kissinger\u2019s wisdom during the Obama administration\u2019s coddling of China and the schizophrenic Russian \u201creset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/10\/11\/a-new-era-for-the-china-russia-us-triangle\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Nearly a half-century ago, President Richard Nixon\u2019s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, established a successful U.S. strategy for dealing with America\u2019s two most dangerous rivals. He sought closer ties to both the Soviet Union, with its more than 7,000 nuclear weapons, and Communist China, with the world\u2019s largest population. 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