The collapse of the USSR really made people believe New Left gay race communism + mixed-market economy was the telos of mankind, the inevitable product of development, instead of what it actually meant (command economies suck, USSR shot itself in the foot harder than we did).
WRT China, the thought process looked like:
1) We build up the PRC tech/industrial base, making a few of us very rich and also doing good for the world
2) The PRC becomes EU East because the laws of history demand it (in a perverse sense, almost Marxist)
1) We build up the PRC tech/industrial base, making a few of us very rich and also doing good for the world
2) The PRC becomes EU East because the laws of history demand it (in a perverse sense, almost Marxist)
The actual lesson of the Cold War was not that gay race communism + mixed market economy is the best of all possible worlds, just better than a straight command economy. Post-60s USA would have lost to a *fascist version of the USSR or greater German Reich or Japanese Empire.
In the 1920s, Lothrop Stoddard understood the implications of the below, hence his fear of the Yellow Peril. But anti-racists did not. 
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