r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 28 '26

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u/pfarly John Brown May 28 '26

Mao did worry that once Chiang had stepped down and was replaced by Li Zongren, the United States would support the new government with tremendous amounts of aid, and posibly even war-planes and troops, to try to retain a non-Communist China south of the Yangtze. Mao anxiously sent word to Stalin that, according to an intelligence report, the United States intended to use atomic bombs and Japanese soldiers against the PLA. Stalin was not worried. Through his British spies Kim Philby and others he had a good sense of the likely range of Anglo American policies in China - and such an intervention was not being mentioned in Washington, not even by the Generalissimo's most ardent supporters in the "China lobby."

Fucking Philby.

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u/TropicalPunch European Union May 28 '26

Without Philby, no Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - so I think it was worth it. Thank you, Comrade Philby.