Seventy-five years ago China fell to the communists. Revisionist history can be a touchy subject, especially when it attempts to correct an “accepted” version of history that has been passed on to generations of Americans by teachers in high schools and universities, book publishers, historical essays, and the media.
Truman’s China policy was nothing short of a disaster.
The question “Who Lost China?” in the mid-to-late 1940s was at one time an open question and a serious and consequential political issue. When the Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong defeated the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek, Americans asked, “What happened?’ and “Who is to blame?” Republicans said it was the Democrats fault. Democrats blamed Chiang Kai-shek’s corrupt regime. Senator Joe McCarthy and others blamed communists within the government and the negligence or worse of key government officials.
The media mostly blamed…
