Basically, he says, this was a good idea and, on its own, it did have that effect! It's just that, y'know, the Communist Party of China is not stupid and acted to counter that. And the US completely failed to respond to that. But it's possible that with more follow-through, this could possibly have gone much better?
> Needless to say, it didn’t work out like that.
Tanner Greer has an interesting piece on this here: https://scholars-stage.org/give-no-heed-to-the-walking-dead/
Basically, he says, this was a good idea and, on its own, it did have that effect! It's just that, y'know, the Communist Party of China is not stupid and acted to counter that. And the US completely failed to respond to that. But it's possible that with more follow-through, this could possibly have gone much better?