Comments on: The Collapse of Nationalist China

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:45:37 +0000

Of course, I can’t quite identify too many periods when American foreign policy did make any sense. I still can’t figure out what the US has really been trying to do since 1991.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:25:02 +0000

The whole “who lost China?” debate of the 1950s may seem appallingly stupid from the perspective of our times, not least because it seemed always to assume that the actions of the US, or of specific Americans, is sufficient to explain the fate of vast foreign nations or regions.

But American China policy of that era still seems to make no sense, so it’s easy to see how the various memoirs and complaints by participants could stoke conspiracy theories.

I hadn’t known about the arms embargo by Marshall, or the ostensible reason for it. That would definitely warrant the slow clap.

By: Duke of Qin

Duke of Qin — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:14:39 +0000

The reason that the KMT government fell was more clearly told by Freda Utley in her 1951 and 1947 books on China. Simply put they were kneecapped and subsequently stabbed in the back by their ostensible American allies in the US government who were overwhelmingly Communist sympathizers if not outright Comintern agents.

The State Department is a den of revolutionary agitators, which is as true today as it was in the 1940s. Though now they are busy supporting Islamist radicals against secular authoritarian governments. China has “deviated” from the correct doctrine as espoused by Foggy Bottom and the Western prestige press nowadays, so it is brickbats for them in the meantime.