In an opinion piece for EABW News, Prof. Minxin Pei argued that “50 years on, [Nixon’s] visit to Beijing remains, as Americans would say, a geopolitical no-brainer.” While many in Washington consider Nixon’s meeting and the policy of engagement it initiated to be “one of history’s greatest strategic blunders” in that they “helped make China an economic superpower and a geopolitical threat to America,” Pei disagrees and goes on to describe some of the resulting geopolitical and economic dividends for the United States.