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Mistakes of the Past Haunt US-China Relations

Mistakes of the Past Haunt US-China Relations
President Richard Nixon and Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai inspect the honor guard at the Beijing Capital Airport in China on Feb. 22, 1972. Keystone/Getty Images
Stu Cvrk
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The path of wrong steps taken on the China road is a long one. The motivations behind those wrong steps have included expediency, ideology, greed, and naivete. Here are some of those missteps.

The Dixie Mission

In 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt established a U.S. Army Observation Group at Ya’an for liaison purposes with Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). President Roosevelt maintained a false notion that the Nationalists and Communists could reconcile their differences after World War II.
Stu Cvrk
Stu Cvrk
Author
Stu Cvrk retired as a captain after serving 30 years in the U.S. Navy in a variety of active and reserve capacities, with considerable operational experience in the Middle East and the Western Pacific. Through education and experience as an oceanographer and systems analyst, Cvrk is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he received a classical liberal education that serves as the key foundation for his political commentary.
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