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Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by eiaoa on Thursday October 18, 2018 @11:21AM (#18249032)
> It was also a policy decision driven by necessity. Nixon didn’t go to China for the lulz, China was going down a bad path dangerous to the west and western business was hitting a wall in many ways as well.

My understanding is that Nixon went to China to create a another pressure point on the USSR. The Cultural Revolution was bad, but mostly for the Chinese.

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Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty by Spooky23 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:38PM (#18250936)
Sure, but applying pressure on the Soviets is a bullet point that covers a lot of ground.

Think about the scale, scope and impact of the Apollo program, which ultimately was done for similar reasons.

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