re: #178 Guanxi88

Nope, far more involved than that. Had commies in the State department and their willing dupes in the press. “Mao’s a nationalist reformer,” and all the usual blatherskite. Of course, in the end, Mao lost China, as it was his own damned fault that we ended up in hostilities. He had every opportunity to capitalize on his position as a leader of one of the Allied nations at the end of the war, and blew it.

So why did Japan get Manchuria?