Chinese would become more like us and that they would feel comfortable in a position of subordination to American power? I think it goes further than that. Probably defining a moment of the relationship is actually Tiananmen Square was 1989. Right. So as the Soviet Union was falling apart, as the Berlin Wall was coming down later that year, you had this confrontation with the students in Beijing and the Chinese regime, unlike the regimes in Eastern Europe, chose to brutally suppress it and kill untold number of people. Perhaps we'll never even know the full death toll there. And there was a momentary sort of shock in America of, oh, my God, you know, maybe we got these people wrong, but it lasted all of five seconds. Right. We stopped selling the weapons, which we were doing throughout the 1980s. Just remarkable that we were actually selling blackout helicopters and other weapons platforms to China that they promptly reverse engineered and produce indigenous copies of, which are (14/57)
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