Things are heating up in China…👀
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Yeah - there has always been an undercurrent of rabid xenophobia in China. These sorts of very high emotions can unleash it for a time and then things would go back to normal and you would be welcome again as a foreigner.
In the 1930's when Stilwell was on assignment in China he was tasked to do some recon mission which saw him travelling across land to Shanghai and he was very nearly lynched on a train. It was only his Chinese associate telling them that he was on his way to see the Generalissimo and if anyone impeded that they would have to answer to him that took the wind out of their sails.
Barbara Tuchman's book "Stilwell and the American Experience in China" is fascinating and describes this time. I read it years ago but the ending stayed with me - after years of the Americans trying to change the way the Chinese did things, once the Americans left, "it was as if they had never been there".
Yeah - I read it probably about 5 years ago. I found it fascinating.
A lot of Americans think Stilwell was a communist agent. Being armed with an understanding of how obstinate and corrupt the generalissimo and his regime were makes me doubt that. The idea that 'we lost china' has always seemed strange to me. China is one of the worlds great civilsations, it was never Americas to loose or to decide what course they took and the futility of trying to foist our system on them seems doomed to fail from the start when you understand just how backwards China was at the time.
Why we were so insistent on even opening (forcing) relations with them is a mystery to me.