How the GOP Stopped Loving China (Jared McKinney, The National Interest)

The New York Times editorial board has condemned the GOP’s new platform, just authorized at the Republican National Convention, as the “most extreme” in memory. This may well be the case, but the platform is also remarkable for something the Times does not comment on: belligerence and a new cynicism towards China. To show how this really is something new, this article reviews GOP platforms since Nixon’s rapprochement with China and traces the evolution thereafter of GOP disillusionment.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/how-the-gop-stopped-loving-china-17088