Taiwan Expendable -Nixon and Kissinger Go to China

There were two stories of Sino-American relations in the 1960s and 1970s, the oft-told tale of normalization with tbe People s Republic of China and the less-noted saga of friction with, and final abandonment of, the Republic of China. [How Kissinger and Nixon threw Taiwan under the bus in their haste to be the first to open up Communist China]