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 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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this is all from The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom by Pomfret https://twitter.com/jelly_petro/status/1399174141958258688 …
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Does the book cover the China Lobby, especially the missionary aspect, before the war? Including FDR’s plan with the Navy to draw the Japanese into the war, largely to help Chiang as part of the China Lobby’s dream of Weaternizing and Christianizing China?
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the china lobby is definitely covered--I don't recall that particular detail, I took a break for a month before listening to all of this yesterday but I vaguely remember that
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