Abstract
In China Misperceived Stephen Mosher asks why, when President Nixon went to China in February 1972, it was “a political necessity” to create an image of a moral and successful communist Chinese society (p. 32). Mosher's answer is that politics required it. If Mao seemed a mass murderer, then conservative Realpolitikers (p. 33) could not win popular political support in the United States for playing a China card intended to make the Soviet Union more manageable in international Realpolitik. Myth was the price of policy.
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