Why did Nixon and Kissinger try to improve American relations with China in the late 1960s?

a. To promote human rights and democracy
b. To build an anti-Communist alliance
c. To play off the Chinese government against the Soviet Union
d. To increase Nixon's popularity at home
e. To listen to Kissinger's foreign policy advice


c

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