WI neither Nixon (I'm indifferent to whether he is elected or not) or any other U.S. president dared *not* visit China, issue a joint communique with the Chinese, issue an MFN waiver, or otherwise normalize relations with them for fear of adverse domestic reaction through the entire 1970s through the middle 1980s?
The maximum the US does is lift certain travel and trade restrictions and talk over some issues at the Warsaw talks or other secret below the cabinet level meetings.
What is the most likely geopolitical result-
A) A continuation of Maoist 1960s style isolation and anger against both the superpowers and many other countries?
B) Sino-Soviet rapprochement before the end of the 1970s?
C) Sino-Soviet war?
D) Sino-US war?
E) A "silent" US-Chinese geopolitical partnership against the USSR, even while mutual rhetoric, when there is rhetoric, is bitter?