John Fredrick Parker
Donor
What if no US President went to China prior to Mao's death in 1976? First, how would that affect succession of PRC leadership? Following this, what are the prospects for China and the relationship with America?
First think that occurrs to me is that you don't have the explosion in the US China trade. Less economic growth for China.
Course that trade probably goes somewhere else.
More Mexican growth? Or the Philipines?
So any thoughts on effects other than trade? Like on the larger Cold War?
To make this happen, you may have to somehow butterfly Nixon's presidency, which I don't know how it will happen.
To make this happen, you may have to somehow butterfly Nixon's presidency, which I don't know how it will happen.
How about having Mao die in 1968 and have Lin Biao take over.
The problem here is that the international trend was to recognize the PRC over Taiwan. I doubt any mainstream American President (besides Scoop Jackson) wouldn't open up a dialogue with Beijing at some point in the early '70s.