(c) "His [Marshall's] warm personal relationships with Chiang and Zhou did not seem to matter. * * * Before Marshall knew it, American troops stationed in China to oversee an orderly repatriation of Japanese troops were caught in the rekindled civil war. Marshall pressed on nonetheless. Unable to parse the murky relationship between Mao and Stalin, he gambled on good faith, hoping for the best. An honest broker trapped in a wicked game, Marshall was in the end whipsawed by cultural and political forces beyond his ken."
ken (n; First Known Use 1590; Understanding Ken; etymology)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ken
(d) "The same day Chiang's armies finally lost Manchuria, Truman won a close re-election [Tuesday, Nov 2, 1948]."
Liaoshen Campaign 辽沈战役 (Sept 12 - Nov 2, 1948) (辽沈战役 is the name PTC christened; back in Taiwan, nobody talked about, or were curious about, how Chiang lost China -- a useless endeavor)
(e) "When Chiang's ambassador in Washington said there should be a Marshall Plan for China -- his chorus of supporters posited the existence of a racist double standard -- Marshal could only laugh. Mr Kurtz-Phelan does so right along with him. 'Predictions by American diplomats and journalist would turn into mere "agrarian democrats" proved laughable.' "
list of ambassadors of China to the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li ... o_the_United_States
(Wellington Koo [顾维钧] 1946–56)
After 1979, the list switches seamlessly to those from PRC.
(f) "We know how the movie ends: the communists in control by 1949, Chiang defeated and exiled to Taiwan, a customer of American arms. After Moscow tested a hydrogen bomb [megatons of TNT: US Nov 1, 1952, Soviet Union November 1955, UK (worked closely with US), China June 17, 1967, 32 months after detonating its first fission weapon': en.wikipedia.org] and war broke out on the Korean peninsula, the Cold War hit full stride."
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