This is a holding area for writing from the Dixie Mission article section on Communist Subterfuge. I deleted it from the main article since I believe it was complicating the article with possible OR. That said, I think it can be used in the article on Wartime perception of the Chinese Communists.
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Recent scholarship suggests that the Chinese Communists had never wished to become an ally of the United States. The Chinese Communists had always regarded the United States as an imperialist power and it was unlikely that a lasting relationship could have been formed between the two.[1] And yet the opportunistic nature of Mao's policies belies any easy interpretation. We know from Mao's doctor, for example, that he admired Great Britain and the United States. In addition, Mao often quarreled with the Soviet Union during his reign, and the two countries apparently came close to war in the late 1960's. So it is impossible to accurately state how the influence of a working relationship between the Communists and the United States would have affected the flow of events that followed the Communist victory in 1949 in the Chinese Civil War. At one time in one context, the Chinese communists may have regarded the U.S. as an imperialist power. In the mid 1940's, they may have seen a way around this.
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- ^ Sheng, M. Chinese Communist Policy toward the United States and the Myth of the 'Lost Chance' 1948-1950. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3. (Jul., 1994), pp. 475-502