Originally published by American Greatness.
Commentary
The greatest strategic mistake made by the United States was to fund the rise of its enemy. For decades, the U.S. government encouraged investment in China to the extent that much of America’s critical manufacturing capability moved to China, and Chinese firms learned American manufacturing techniques and secrets.
Encouraged by the grossly mistaken conception that the United States was at the “End of History” moment, that liberal democracy and economics had triumphed, and so America would never face a great power rival again—to say nothing of another peer competitor. In fact, all we did was to make possible the rise of another peer competitor….