Gordon Chang, an American expert on China, has written that three times since the end of World War II, America has saved China's communists. As surprising as that may sound, Chang has a strong case. It began with Richard Nixon. In a 1967 landmark Foreign Affairs article, he provided the rationale for engagement and even appeasement, arguing that China should not be isolated where it would "nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates and threaten its neighbors." In the latter stages of Mao's murderous Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party was hurting. Chang writes: "Years of internal fighting and chaos -- essentially a civil war -- had weaken China's ruling organization, but Nixon's visit that year signaled support of Mao's tottering regime." Mao and his communist party was saved. This may have been a worthwhile bargain, as it help split China from the USSR. but that doesn't diminish the fact that U.S. action aided the...(Read Full Article)