Word: kai-shek
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8.Use some foreigners against others, to secure Chinese ends. Thus Chiang Kai-shek has cultivated American supporters of his own military doctrine, and by putting one third of his forces on Quemoy, with American help, he has made the defense of Quemoy probably necessary to the defense of Taiwan. Meanwhile Mao Tse-tung has found a staunch ally against Moscow in the state of Albania...
...have to be suspended as a precondition to the truce. For another, they noted that any such truce could become a trap. They recalled in particular how the Chinese Communists, routed in the battle of Szepingkai in 1946 and on the brink of losing all of Manchuria to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, pressured U.S. mediators into calling for a standstill, then used the precious time to regroup. The Chinese later exploited the Korean peace talks at Panmunjom, which dragged on for two years at the cost of 80,000 American casualties...
There is a widespread belief in China that a national government is not only unnecessary, but all bad. After the collapse of the Manchu dynasty in 1908, Sun Yat-sen and Generals Wu Pei-fu and Chiang Kai-shek all tried to unify the country, but failed because the city fathers wouldn't cooperate...
...think Chiang Kai-shek is one of the most abused and misused men of modern history ... I think if Red China is recognized, you will have a potent Chinese minority in every Asian country who will turn to Peking and no more look to Washington." (Design for Dedication...
...appreciated what Webster was saying. Historians of the day ignored modern China. Chiang Kai-shek was organizing a huge, bloody trap to "exterminate" thousands of Communists, but the first American journalists wouldn't arrive on the scene for another few years. Sometime between that luncheon and his arrival at Oxford months later as a Rhodes Scholar, Fairbank decided that Chinese history might be an interesting thing to try. He borrowed a book from the ex-missionary who taught Chinese at Oxford, sat down and began to memorize the characters. Thirty-eight years after that luncheon the ranking State Department East...