When one reads the declassified documents of the meetings between Mao/Nixon/Kissinger in the National Archives one sees and comprehends that Nixon/Kissinger were willing to cede all of Asia to Mao and his bloody CCP --- a promise made by Kissinger/Nixon by the time Nixon had completed his second term --- which he never did, since he was Watergated out of office, thank the gods!
and Billary is most correct, so let us review Billygoat's remarks in a speech before Johns Hopkins University back in 2000:
"For the first time, our companies will be able to sell and distribute products in China made by workers here in America without being forced to relocate manufacturing to China, sell through the Chinese government, or transfer valuable technology -- for the first time. We'll be able to export products without exporting jobs. Meanwhile, we'll get valuable new safeguards against any surges of imports from China."