The Biggest Success of the Chinese in Diplomacy

The biggest success is obviously the fact that they were able to achieve a normalization of the relationship with the United States. I think it's really interesting they talk about some of these strategies and you can see how those function or don't function even today. The West sort of bought the idea of end of history and the Chinese led them by it so to me that's a sort of seminal success in allowing the West to sort of believe their own cool it while you kept on doing what you wanted to do"