FDR envisioned Chiang's China as a postwar great power that would help bring stability to Asia.
Marshall's China mission and the Truman administration's arms embargo on Nationalist forces signaled the end of America's alliance with Chiang.
We now know that the FDR-Truman administration had been infiltrated by communist agents, fellow travelers, and useful idiots who promoted the notions that Mao and the Communists were agrarian reformers, and that a communist China would not join the Soviet bloc and would pose no threat to U.S. interests.
Foreign news editor in 1944, created a furor among the magazine's China correspondents by rewriting stories that he believed portrayed Chiang's Nationalist regime as corrupt and pictured the Chinese communists in a favorable light.
In a November 1944 article, Chambers warned that efforts to form a coalition government in China that included the Communists were doomed to fail and would result in the Communist takeover of China and China's alliance with the Soviet Union - which is exactly what happened.
China fought U.S. and UN forces in the Korean War, a war that was instigated by China and North Korea.
The CCP's conquest of China set all of those events in motion, and the FDR-Truman administration's policy of withholding aid from the Nationalists ensured a communist victory.
https://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2020/04/29/history_can_be_unkind_fdr_truman_and_china_490428.html
Marshall's China mission and the Truman administration's arms embargo on Nationalist forces signaled the end of America's alliance with Chiang.
We now know that the FDR-Truman administration had been infiltrated by communist agents, fellow travelers, and useful idiots who promoted the notions that Mao and the Communists were agrarian reformers, and that a communist China would not join the Soviet bloc and would pose no threat to U.S. interests.
Foreign news editor in 1944, created a furor among the magazine's China correspondents by rewriting stories that he believed portrayed Chiang's Nationalist regime as corrupt and pictured the Chinese communists in a favorable light.
In a November 1944 article, Chambers warned that efforts to form a coalition government in China that included the Communists were doomed to fail and would result in the Communist takeover of China and China's alliance with the Soviet Union - which is exactly what happened.
China fought U.S. and UN forces in the Korean War, a war that was instigated by China and North Korea.
The CCP's conquest of China set all of those events in motion, and the FDR-Truman administration's policy of withholding aid from the Nationalists ensured a communist victory.
https://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2020/04/29/history_can_be_unkind_fdr_truman_and_china_490428.html
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