TO WHAT extent does the two-year political investigation into Donald Trump and his top aides and family members, based on suspicions of treacherous "Collusion" with the Russian government, represent a kind of McCarthyism? Most people involved in that investigation no doubt would be aghast at the question.
It concerned the so-called China hands who influenced State Department thinking about Chinese Communism during World War II. The China hands derided the Middle Kingdom's Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek as a hapless and corrupt figure stuck in China's unsavory past.
With the advent of the Cold War and with China falling to Mao's Communist Party in 1949 and aligning itself with Moscow, a rancorous debate ignited over who had allegedly "Lost" China.
Alsop had spent most of the war years in China, working for General Claire Chennault, and he had played a major role in the bureaucratic drama centered on U.S. policy toward China amidst war, intrigue, inscrutable motives, mendacity and civic hatreds.
Throughout the fateful years in China, the American representatives there actively favored the Chinese communists.
In the end, they came close to offering China up to the communists, like a trussed bird on a platter, over four years before the eventual communist triumph.
These China hands, he wrote, may have been "Injudicious," but their advocacy was at least "Logical, defensible and not indicative of disloyalty".
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-explains-ferocity-attack-against-donald-trump-62547
It concerned the so-called China hands who influenced State Department thinking about Chinese Communism during World War II. The China hands derided the Middle Kingdom's Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek as a hapless and corrupt figure stuck in China's unsavory past.
With the advent of the Cold War and with China falling to Mao's Communist Party in 1949 and aligning itself with Moscow, a rancorous debate ignited over who had allegedly "Lost" China.
Alsop had spent most of the war years in China, working for General Claire Chennault, and he had played a major role in the bureaucratic drama centered on U.S. policy toward China amidst war, intrigue, inscrutable motives, mendacity and civic hatreds.
Throughout the fateful years in China, the American representatives there actively favored the Chinese communists.
In the end, they came close to offering China up to the communists, like a trussed bird on a platter, over four years before the eventual communist triumph.
These China hands, he wrote, may have been "Injudicious," but their advocacy was at least "Logical, defensible and not indicative of disloyalty".
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-explains-ferocity-attack-against-donald-trump-62547
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