FDR didnt even bother telling his China envoy Hurley about this much less Chiang
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also everyone was a soviet or maoist spyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerasia
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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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lol Chiang was funding Dewey in '48 and he was shockedpic.twitter.com/oIEyAgoWr8
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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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Didn't FDR also threaten to withhold aid to the KMT during ww2 if they attacked Communist forces while also fighting the Japanese?
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i cant remember everything but this sounds like it was probably true yes
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