Obama in China Highlights Total Failure of Conservative Vision

openleft.com — Bush's tax cuts and "free market/free trade" policies were supposed to turbo-charge America's economy, while the neo-conservative foreign policy was supposed to be a blueprint for extending American hegemony across the globe, indefinitely, with the containment and subordination of China as a key strategic goal. Conveniently, those lofty promises of yesteryear have been entirely forgotten. Otherwise it would have been impossible to cover Obama's recent visit to China without starkly confronting the utter failure of conservative ideology.

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