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CHINA GOES
COMMUNIST
Russia, as early as 1920, was conspiring against China. Shortly after
the Bolshevik revolution ended in 1918, the Communists announced: "We
are marching to free ... the people of China." In 1921, a Russian agent
was sent to Peking, then to Shanghai, to make plans for the First
Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which would become the world's
largest. They began to infiltrate the government in 1922, and by 1924,
the Chinese armed forces were reorganized along the same lines as the
Soviet army. Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) was the Commandant, and Chou
En-lai was in charge of Political Affairs.
With the use of Soviet troops commanded by Gen. Michael Borodin, Chiang
attacked Shanghai, robbing the Rothschild-affiliated Soong Bank.
President Coolidge refused to send U.S. troops against the Chinese
forces, and T.V. Soong negotiated with Chiang, offering him $3 million,
his sister May-ling as a wife (even though Chiang had a wife and
family), and the presidency of China for life, if he would change sides.
He agreed, and began to rule China as a British ally. In December, 1927,
he married the sister of Soong. Seeing the Russians as a threat to his
country, he had them ejected, and had many communist advisors arrested.
Mao Tse-tung fled, and hid out in the northern provinces, where he began
training rebels for a future insurrection.
In 1937, Japan attacked Shanghai, and coupled with the growing Communist
insurgency, created a two-front war. China needed help, and sent the
following telegram to Roosevelt on December 8, 1941: "To our new common
battle, we offer all we are and all we have to stand with you until the
Pacific and the world are freed from the curse of brute force and
endless perfidy." China's plea was brushed off, and they were the last
country to get military aid, which came in the form of a $250 million
loan in gold to stabilize their economy. Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, Harry Dexter White, the Soviet spy, was in charge of making
sure China got the money, and over a period of 3 years, he only sent
them $27 million. In 1945, Congress voted a second loan of $500 million,
and Dexter made sure they didn't get any of that, which resulted in the
collapse of their economy.
After World War II, special envoys Gen. George C. Marshall (Army Chief
of Staff, and CFR member, who served as Secretary of State 1947-49, and
Secretary of Defense 1950-51; who had knowledge of the impending attack
on Pearl Harbor, but didn't inform the commanders in the Pacific) and
Patrick J. Hurley were sent to China to meet with Chiang Kai-shek. They
urged him to give the Communists representation in the Chinese
Government, and for the Nationalists (Kuomintang) to have a coalition
government, since they felt that the Russians weren't influencing the
Chinese Communists. However, Chiang would not accept any kind of
Communist influence in his government, so Marshall recommended that all
American aid be stopped, and an embargo enforced. There was no fuel for
Chinese tanks and planes, or ammunition for weapons. Russia gave the
Chinese Communists military supplies they had captured from Japan, and
also diverted some of the American Lend-Lease material to them. Soon,
Mao began making his final preparations to take over the government.
High level State Department officials, such as Harry Dexter White and
Owen Lattimore, who were members of the Institute of Pacific Relations,
besides planning the destruction of the Chinese economy, also falsified
documents to indicate that the Chinese Communists were actually farmers
who were pushing for agricultural reform. Thus, from 1943-49, magazines
like the Saturday Evening Post (who ran over 60 articles) and Colliers,
advocated and promoted the Communist movement. While Mao Tse-tung was
made to appear as an "agrarian reformer," 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."
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