Word: yalu
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Even if their only objectives were to defend a buffer zone south of the Yalu, and pin down the U.S. divisions.to a harsh winter war of attrition, the highly audible wails of dismay from the U.S.-from the public, which had expected the Korean war to be ended by now, and from statesmen who wanted to dispatch U.S. divisions to Europe-must have been music to Red ears...
...door to recognition of Communist China, by not quite guaranteeing Formosa, the State Department had deliberately encouraged Red China's hopes that, if it stayed out of the Korean war, the U.S. would go along with recognition and withdraw protection from Formosa. By sending his troops across the Yalu, China's Mao Tse-tung could be simply pressing for a bargain that had been dangled in front...
...case, the initiative had passed back to the Communists. If Douglas MacArthur struck really hard at the Chinese Reds, he would be accused of provoking a war with China; and if he did not strike at them, the Reds could simply sit astride the Yalu, tying up the bulk of the U.S. armed forces...
...Korea, the original decision to send in U. N. troops involved the gamble that Mao would not interface. As late as the mid-September Inchon landing relatively small Chinese reinforcements might have pushed MacArthur's troops into the sea. Peiping waited until U. N. forces approached the important Yalu River power dams and then committed a full two divisions...
...differences and withdrawal of Chinese troops from Korea. At present no one is sure of Mao's real aims in entering the fight. "Perhaps what the Chinese really fear," Secretary of State Acheson said Wednesday, "is the loss of their interest in the northern border area-notably the Yalu River power installations. If so, the U. S. will do everything possible to make certain they know their interests will be protected...