Mao Zedong (left) and Chiang Kai-shek toast over the banquet table in Chongqing in 1945. Photo: ChinaFotoPress
Mao Zedong (left) and Chiang Kai-shek toast over the banquet table in Chongqing in 1945. Photo: ChinaFotoPress
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review | US failure to bring peace to post-war China explained in The China Mission – book review

The Marshall Plan changed post-war Europe, but its architect, General George Marshall, failed to unite China’s Nationalists and Communists. Author Daniel Kurtz-Phelan asserts that US foreign policy was flawed and doomed to failure

Francis P Sempa

Updated: 9:03pm, 16 May, 2018

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Mao Zedong (left) and Chiang Kai-shek toast over the banquet table in Chongqing in 1945. Photo: ChinaFotoPress
Mao Zedong (left) and Chiang Kai-shek toast over the banquet table in Chongqing in 1945. Photo: ChinaFotoPress
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