The other China Hands: U.S. Army officers and America's failure in China, 1941-1950
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The US Army's China Hands were a group of officials posted in China to lend assistance in its war with Japan in 1941. However, this provision of the Lend Lease Act that was meant to improve relations between China and the US proved to be a failure. The over zealousness of the army personnel and their self-assumed role as the interpreters of Chinese military policies furthered embittered the relations between the two countries. The Chinese resented the US Army officers' criticism and interference in internal matters, and the Army's refusal to admit the truth of the situation still affects international relations with China.
Publication Name: The Journal of American-East Asian Relations
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 1058-3947
Year: 1995
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Mist across the Bamboo Curtain: China's internal crisis and the American intelligence process, 1961-1962
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The great famine that struck China between 1959 and 1962 and the subsequent tentative approach of the US government in dealing with the crisis could be attributed to the failure of American intelligence. As such, Pres John F. Kennedy did not deem China's internal crisis as an event of strategic consequence. Aside from the inability of intelligence to provide a true picture of China's crisis, the Bay of Pigs debacle in Cuba was still fresh in the president's mind. Hence, in the absence of concrete intelligence reports, plans of taking over China using Taiwan as a base were shelved.
Publication Name: The Journal of American-East Asian Relations
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 1058-3947
Year: 1996
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A 'lost chance' for what? Rethinking the origins of U.S.-PRC confrontation
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Research based on documentary evidence from the People's Republic of China point to the conclusion that the prospect of diplomatic relations between China and the U.S. during the Truman administration was not practical. Evidence reveals that Mao's mistrust of the U.S. coupled with the Chinese Communist Party's leaning towards the USSR ruled out any bilateral understanding. However, the softening of U.S. stance in the later stage helped in preventing an escalation of tensions between the two countries, especially during the Korean War in 1950.
Publication Name: The Journal of American-East Asian Relations
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 1058-3947
Year: 1995
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