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Chiang was blasted for being a corrupt dictator. In 1945, Lattimore sent President Truman a
memorandum suggesting a coalition government between the Communists and the National
Government. John Carter Vincent of the IPR elaborated upon that memo, and it became the basis
upon which Truman based his China policy, which was announced on December 15, 1945.
It was alleged by some researchers, that Russia sent China a telegram, saying that if they
didn’t surrender, they would be destroyed. They were requested to send ten technicians to see the
bomb that would be used, and when they went, they saw an atomic bomb with the capability of
destroying a large city. As the story goes, Chiang sent a telegram to President Truman, asking for
help. Truman refused. In 1948, Congress voted to send China $125 million in military aid, but
again the money was held up until Chiang was defeated. In October, 1949, 450 million people
were turned over to the Communist movement.
Chiang fled to the island of Taiwan, 110 miles off the east coast of China, where he governed
that country under a democracy. Mao Tse-tung, who announced in 1921 that he was a Marxist,
after reading the Communist Manifesto, took over as China’s leader, and Peking was established
as the new capital. On February 14, 1950, a thirty-year treaty of friendship was signed with
Russia.
In March, 1953, Mao proposed to the Soviet Union, a plan for world conquest, in which
every country, except the United States, would be communist-controlled by 1973. It was called a
“Memorandum on a New Program for World Revolution,” and was taken to Moscow by the
Chinese Foreign Minister, Chou En-lai. The first phase was to be completed by 1960, and called
for Korea, Formosa, and Indochina to be under Chinese control.
On July 15, 1971, Chairman Mao appealed to the world to, “unite and defeat the U.S.
aggressors and all their running dogs.”
While campaigning in 1968, Richard Nixon said: “I would not recognize Red China now,
and I would not agree to admitting it to the United Nations.” In his book Six Crises, he said that
“admitting Red China to the United Nations would be a mockery of the provision of the Charter
which limits its membership to ‘peace-loving nations.’ And what was most disturbing, was that it
would give respectability to the Communist regime which would immediately increase its power
and prestige in Asia, and probably irreparably weaken the non-Communist governments in that
area.” Yet it was Nixon who opened the dialogue with China, and in 1971, Communist China
was seated as a member country of the United Nations, while the Republic of China (Taiwan)
was thrown out. With the visits to China by Nixon and Kissinger in 1971, on up to Reagan in
1984, relations between the two countries were almost as good as they were when they were
allies in 1937. In 1978, President Carter approved the sending of U.S. technology to China, and
the American government recognized the Communists as the official government of China. On
January 1, 1979, Carter severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan, saying that “there is but one China,
and Taiwan is part of China.”
KOREA FALLS
From 1910, until 1945, Korea was part of the Japanese empire. The victorious World War II
allies agreed that Korea should be made an independent country, but until negotiations could
take place, the U.S. took charge of the area south of the 38th parallel, while the Soviets occupied
the northern half. Plans to establish a unified Korean government failed, and in 1948, rival
governments were established: the Communist government of Kim Il Sung in the North, and the