Given that the US and China had only a few years before been fighting over Vietnam, this was a bold plan. But it was one that also fit in with America's international strategy and its desire to improve relations with the PRC.
在這之前幾年，美、中兩國剛在越戰中廝殺，這樣的構想極大膽，但又符合美國國際戰略及和中國修好的原則。