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Fuzzing the Issues. That was a difficult view for the U.S. to accept, for Chiang was a genuine hero, the man who had rallied his country against the Japanese invasion. Increasingly, however, his war effort bogged down, partly because of the challenge to his rule from Mao Tse-tung and the Communists. Chiang felt that he was inadequately supported by the U.S. A group of U.S. military and diplomatic observers arrived at Communist headquarters in Yenan in July 1944. As the senior diplomat present, Service talked most with Mao and his top aides...
Service saw no point in fuzzing the issue by using euphemisms like "agrarian reformers" for Communists. Mao declared that his was genuine Communism. But he made a distinction that was to be lost on the West for more than two decades: his was a Chinese, "nationalist" Communism and no carbon copy of Moscow's. Mao hoped for U.S. military aid in the war against Japan. He insisted that after Japan's defeat, the U.S. and the China that he expected to influence or control must be close friends. Mao's Communists, Service decided, must be reckoned with...
...went to the University of California for an M.A. in political science, then settled in at U.C.'s Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. Its press has just published his Amerasia Papers: Some Problems in the History of U.S.-China Relations, which fully records his early talks with Mao...
...China hands' testimony at Senator William Fulbright's closed hearing last week contained no surprises. They endorsed President Nixon's plans to normalize relations with Peking. Davies recalls that although there is no supporting text in State Department files, Mao and Chou En-lai appeared to make a bid early in 1945 to be invited to Washington...
...presidential assistants and reporters notwithstanding, it will still be some time before sweating, camera-clutching hordes of American tourists start shuttling across the Hong Kong border to begin the already standard Canton-Shanghai-Peking run. But the prospects for future tours are mind-bending: "Swim the Yangtze in Chairman Mao's wake," for example; or perhaps "Join the Harvest at the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune." For the present, however, the few Americans allowed into China in the sneakered steps of the U.S. table tennis team have accumulated sufficient experiences to allow construction of a half-Baedeker...