If the US was opposed to Communism, why didn't it pursue China and the CCP after the collapse of the USSR?
I'm reading a great book called "We Are Being Harmonised" about the Chinese surveillance state. There is a chapter about censorship and Tiananmen Square and it got me thinking about how complicit is "the west" in China's/CCP's rise?
You might want to take a look to Kissinger Diplomacy, 1994. And of course... On China, 2011. Were if i recall correctly he gives a different aporach to China reviweing himself.
From a international relationships perspective, US dosent need the red threat today to stand against Russia. Is more about the balance power between states rather than ideology itself. Remember that cold war era ideologic polarity sometimes oversahdow the "feet on the ground" perspectiv, the local issues (or endogamic process instead of a force that comes from outside, namly communism and capitalism). If we want to keep the ideology factor, remember that communism on China developed different than in the URSS as a State in economic issues.
As for "why didnt it pursue China", US always cared about China (at least since the end of the WW2) as they have an influencial border on Korea and the seas of Japan.