The best foreign policy analogy to the COVID 19 pandemic and previous SARS outbreaks all emanating from China, is how the US had handled foreign policy toward Bolshevik Russia, treating Russia as a friend of liberty against a decadent Imperialist West, and supporting the Soviets more or less throughout their early rise to power, then during the leftist US 1930s, helping them develop nuclear weapons both by loose security and a sharing of weaponry liberal ideology that proved disastrous, even to the end of WWII, when Stalin's true colors could no longer be fully hidden from the American people.
The analogy with Russia, of later US assistance and enormous concessions for China, especially after the Nixon Shock Pivot, but especially after 1980, is doubly striking, and heartbreaking, in retrospect.
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