Quotes from Warren I. Cohen

The formulation of policy toward China, as with most issues confronting the Reagan administration, became a contest between conservative ideologues (let Reagan be Reagan) and pragmatic advisers struggling for control of the mind of a president who was rarely engaged intellectually.

Without prior notice to the other powers or even to the State Department officials concerned with the consortium, Wilson proceeded to inform the press that the American group in the consortium would no longer have the support of the government.