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Biden Shouldn't Meet Xi Jinping in China. He Should Do It in America.

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The news that President Joe Biden is preparing to meet face-to-face in Asia in November with the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping, broke shortly after I’d finished reading a passage in former President Ronald Reagan’s memoir about Reagan’s own presidential trip to Asia to meet with the Chinese Communist leader at the time.
Reagan wrote that in April 1984, he stopped in Hawaii on his way over to Asia. “I saw Barry Goldwater, who was stopping over before continuing to Washington after a visit to Taiwan. Barry was upset about my visiting China and made little attempt to hide it,” Reagan wrote.
That understates it. A press account from the time has then-Sen. Goldwater (R–Ariz.), an ardent foe of communism who was the Republican Party’s 1964 presidential candidate, telling reporters in Taipei that Reagan’s visit to China was a mistake.
“I don’t think he is going to accomplish anything,” Goldwater said. “Nobody can accomplish anything with mainland China. They are beyond hope.”
Reagan went ahead with the trip anyway. Goldwater, however, provided a political constraint—and a reality check. He was consistent and principled on the point. In 1982 he was quoted as saying that if the Chinese Communists invited him to visit, he’d reject the invitation: “There is nothing we could talk about.

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