this is only slightly less stupid than whatever stalin said about hitler as barbarossa was spinning up
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jesus fucking christ and then at yalta in exchange for russia attacking japan in manchuria FDR sells Chiang down the river and lets russia take china postwar this is insane this fucking guy
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stalin let mao know about this. at this point mao pulled out of negotiations with the US and the Nationalists
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FDR didnt even bother telling his China envoy Hurley about this much less Chiang
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also the CCP was actively cooperating with the japanese and they locked up american attaches when they found out god i am so mad about this mccarthy was right about everything
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so ok before taking over europe Marshall tried to reconcile the nationalists and communists in china and did an awful job and Mao ran rings around him Truman didnt want to bail out the KMT, and only did it in '46 after a new Republican Congress insisted
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meanwhile the KMT is assassinating liberals around china which pisses everyone in the US off
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this is all from The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom by Pomfret https://twitter.com/jelly_petro/status/1399174141958258688 …
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as Mao started sweeping through China in 1948 he started systematically imprisoning and beating US diplomats, partly to stop them from filing reports that he was getting support from Moscow
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Dean Acheson, then secretary of state, thought this was all fine because it would let the US disengage from the KMT and then American influence would magically make Mao a happy Westerner he cut off support to the KMT Congress was super pissed
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pictured: Dean Acheson when Mao signed the Sino-Soviet Treatypic.twitter.com/TZ3iQ5H90q
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oh interesting during the Korean War, US bombing killed Mao's son, perhaps preventing the formation of a proper dynastyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Anying
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as part of the Korean War Era CCP anti-American culture propaganda the Party enlisted hysterical testimonials from Chinese housewives about how Hollywood movies had ruined their lives
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the "china hands" who were obvious communist sympathizers when they weren't operatives were driven out of government by mccarthy they found ready employment in universities where among other things they insisted the Great Leap Forward famines were fake
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ok this is fun when Korea was winding down it turned out that half of Chinese national POWs wanted to be repatriated Anywhere But China this was a major PR embarrassment for the CCP so they decided to accuse the United States of War Crimes
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specifically they tortured US POWs to confess to having dropped bugs from airplanes on to Chinese troops an International Body of Experts that was chaired by a China operative found that yes there was Bug Warfare this caused a panic in China and spurred mass adoption of masks
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although 2/3 of Chinese POWs defected, 67 americans did as well this was explained as "brainwashing" (transliteration from Chinese) and spurred US fears of a psychic warfare gap this led directly to MKULTRA
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the CCP really did this though they were not kind to the psyches of westerners who fell to their tender mercies the broke a daughter of some missionaries who was studying in beijing on a fulbright
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looooooooool the american Biderman's report described the specific methods used by the CCP to break POWs (they were all just conventional torture) after 9/11 the report was plagiarized and used as the first draft of new US Enhanced Interrogation
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the Pinko has found my thread and agents are seeking my death as we speakhttps://twitter.com/SadBoylshevik/status/1399222240403669000 …
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during the red scare we more or less hounded a remarkably talented Chinese rocket scientist out of the country. upon his return to china he led their nuclear program successfully. very savvy of ushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen …
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apparently the KMT planted a bomb on the plane carrying china's diplomatic corps to the Bandung Conference (1955) and blew it up over the pacific they only missed Zhou Enlai because he changed flights at the last minute
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oh shit there's speculation his return to china fell out of US-China negotiations where we were trying to split china from the russians. and so we returned him to help them go nuclear who knowshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1399229485900177408 …
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eisenhower threatened to nuke china on no fewer than eight separate occasions
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the Kennedy administration proposed to Khrushchev that the USSR acquiesce to US strikes on Chinese nuclear facilities (Khrushchev said no)
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diplomatic histories have the wildest and most entertaining counterfactuals
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