US didn't 'engage' China to make it rich and free; it profited off it | South China Morning Post

In the United States, there has developed what may be called a revisionist history of China's rise. Under the heading of engagement and its failure, the narrative is that after the Cold War, America wanted to help communist China liberalise its economy and democratise its society and state. So, it decided to engage Beijing to entice it into following the rules-based international system and to integrate its economy into that of the world. After all, the 1990s and 2000s marked a great wave of democratic convergence around the world. This American effort, however, has largely failed. China has failed to…