Liars Unlimited

CHINA: Sabotaged by United States Traitors Into Communism

By CE Ramsey

China supposedly is prosperous, modern, and progressive. But the slick, smiling mask it shows to the rest of the world as it stealthily collects technology and military secrets from the greedy corporations of the world hides the cruelest regime in the world. It is still governed by a single regime, the Communist Party, which demands its members be atheists.

Dissidents are imprisoned without trial or due process; it rigorously restricts families to one child-although there are signs they are easing up on this practice. They keep an iron control on most media, and especially blocks criticism of itself on the Internet, just as the U.S. is now attempting to do in its media and Internet.

Needless to say, the utter ruthlessness and cruelty of the Communists, plus their total amorality and fanatical devotion to the ‘State’, cannot help but give China one of the worst human rights records in the world. Their ‘re-education by labor’, a euphemism for slave-labor camps, detains hundreds of thousands every year, for virtually an

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y reason—and many of these are Christians, or practitioners of a qigong cultivation practice known as ‘Falun Dafa’ or ‘Falun Gong’. The church stands firmly on its commitment to preach the gospel, no matter what. Falun Gong determines to live by “Compassion, Tolerance, and Truth” and save others by these universal principles. They are both, however, doing God’s work, and that the Communists cannot tolerate.

The common lesson that is taught in American classrooms is that Chiang Kai -shek’s Nationalist government was hopelessly corrupt and disorganized, that his army deserted and he was, essentially defeated from within. The Communists themselves boast grandly to their captive subjects of their grand and noble struggle to ‘free the workers’ and give them this wonderful worker’s paradise they live in. What the Chinese people think of that sentiment would probably not be printable, even if I did know how to write in Chinese.

Sadly, to the great shame of those of us who know the real truth, the Communists would never have succeeded in their ‘revolution’ at all, if things had gone unchanged. They were vastly outnumbered by the Nationalists, who were much better equipped, and had the support of the majority of Chinese people behind them, which the Communists did not. Mao Zedong knew he would only be able to conquer China by force; he was lacking that in sufficient numbers to do more than harass the Nationalists.

President Nixon meets with China's Communist Party Leader, Mao Tse-Tung, 02/29/1972 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the 1930’s, Japan was the main barrier to the Soviets in their efforts to spread Communism to Asia. The founder of the U.S. Communist Party, Benjamin Gitlow, wrote in “I Confess” (1940) :

“When I was in Moscow, the attitude toward the United States in the event of war was discussed. Privately, it was the opinion of all the Russian leaders to whom I spoke that the rivalry between the United States and Japan must actually break out into war between these two.”
“The Russians were hopeful that the war would break out soon, because that would greatly secure the safety of Russia’s Siberian borders and would so weaken Japan that Russia would no longer have to fear an attack from her in the East.... Stalin is perfectly willing to let Americans die in defense of the Soviet Union.”

Japan moved troops into Manchuria in the 1930’s; although certain history books call this an “imperialistic invasion”, it was a sensible move in their way of looking at things. They were reacting in large part, to their own version of the Monroe Doctrine, since the Soviets had tromped into Asia and seized Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia.(In less volatile times, most reasonable people would have decided that, yes, they might just have a point there. )

Anthony Kubek, Chairman of Political Science at the University of Dallas, wrote in, “How the Far East Was Lost,”

“It was apparent to Japanese statesmen that unless bastions of defense were built in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, Communism would spread through all of North China and seriously threaten the security of Japan. To the Japanese, expansion in Manchuria was a national imperative.... But the Department of State seemed not to regard Japan as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in North China. As a matter of fact, not one word of protest was sent by the Department of State to the Soviet Union, despite her absorption of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia, while at the same time Japan was censured for stationing troops in China.”

The Communist Party became little more than a puppet of the Soviet Union; it, in turn, recognized the value of China’s massive manpower to Communism’s future. In 1933, the Chinese Communist Party sent this message to Josef Stalin, Soviet Dictator: “Lead us on, O our pilot, from victory to victory!”

The poster reads "Firmly support the decision of the Central Committee to deal with the illegal organization of 'Falun Gong'" (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“At the Teheran and Yalta wartime conferences, Roosevelt asked Stalin if he would break his pact with Japan and enter the Far East war. Stalin agreed, but attached conditions. He demanded that America completely equip his Far Eastern Army for the expedition, with 3,000 tanks, 5,000 planes, plus all the other munitions, food, and fuel required for a 1,250,000-man army. Roosevelt accepted this demand, and 600 shiploads of Lend-Lease material were convoyed to the USSR for the venture. Stalin’s Far Eastern Army swiftly received more than twice the supplies we gave Chiang Kai-Shek during four years as our ally.”

(James Perloff, Ibid.)

The State Department official representing the United States in drawing up the Yalta agreement was Alger Hiss — subsequently exposed as a Soviet spy. General Patrick Hurley, U.S. Ambassador to China, wrote:

“American diplomats surrendered the territorial integrity and the political independence of China … and wrote the blueprint for the Communist conquest of China in secret agreement at Yalta.”

The decision to invite and equip Stalin — a known aggressor — into the Far East must go down among the worst acts of U.S. foreign policy. Stalin’s divisions entered China to fight the already-beaten Japanese on August 9, 1945 — five days before Japan’s surrender. The atom bomb had already pounded Hiroshima.

Another weapon the State Department used in its efforts to defeat the Nationalists: U.S. personnel assigned to China.

Because Japan controlled China’s ports, the Nationalists had to receive supplies by

air lift from India. Stilwell oversaw a campaign of Chinese troops against the

Japanese in Burma, attempting to open a land supply route. When the effort failed,

Stilwell demanded the operation be tried again, using 30 Nationalist divisions. He knew full well that would have meant the end of the Nationalists battle in China—30 divisions would have emptied the major portion of their fighting force. Chiang simply refused the order. Infuriated, Stillwell contacted Roosevelt, who wrote an order to Chiang Kai-shek to comply. He simply replied, no, he wouldn’t, and if the Americans did not like it, they could leave and he would go on alone just as he had been doing before they showed up.

Stillwell was replaced, to his chagrin.

[Note: In my time in the service, I and my fellow enlistees would often marvel at the number of utter buffoons that inhabited the top brass in the military--what in the world were the Army thinking of when they commissioned such utter ding-bats, and why did they turn them loose anywhere near lethal objects…like pencils and large furnishings?? It was only after I started taking more of an interest in military history that I understood the true meaning of the term, “Useful Idiots”.]

The tragic lessons of the sabotage of the Nationalists showed me what I had already learned; they keep stupid officers so they will do stupid things for them. Thus was the case when Army General “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell was assigned to China. He took an intense dislike to Chiang Kai-shek for some mysterious reason, and took to calling him “The Peanut”, and greatly admired the Communists. Stilwell wrote in a letter: “It makes me itch to throw down my shovel and get over there and shoulder a rifle with Chu Teh.” (Chu was commander-in-chief of the Chinese communist armies — as he was later in the Korean War, overseeing the killing of GIs.

Chiang Kai-Shek wrote:

“Stilwell was in a conspiracy with the Communists to overthrow the government”

— an opinion shared by General Hurley, who stated:

“The record of General Stilwell in China is irrevocably coupled in history with the conspiracy to overthrow the Nationalist Government of China, and to set up in its place a Communist regime — and all this movement was part of, and cannot be separated from, the Communist cell or apparatus that existed at the time in the Government in Washington.”

What conspiracy, you might ask?

In China, he was surrounded by a State Department clique favoring a Chinese Communist takeover. Dean Acheson, who as a young attorney had represented Soviet interests in America, became Assistant Secretary of State in 1941. As such, he ensured the State Department’s Far Eastern Division was dominated by Communists and pro-Communists, including Alger Hiss (who was later proven a Soviet spy); John Carter Vincent, director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, later identified by Daily Worker editor Louis Budenz as a Communist; John Stewart Service, Foreign Service Officer in China who turned State Department information over to the Chinese Communists, and was arrested by the FBI in the Amerasia spy case (a foreign affairs magazine that turned out to be a cover for Soviet spies); Foreign Service Officer John P. Davies, who consistently lobbied for the Communists; Owen Lattimore, appointed U.S. adviser to Chiang Kai-shek but identified as a Communist by ex-Communists Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley; and several others.

“The Communists relied very strongly on Service and John Carter Vincent,” said Budenz, “in a campaign against Ambassador Hurley.”

Hurley, an honest statesman, was shocked by the maneuverings of those under him.

“The professional foreign service men,” he reported to President Truman, “sided with the Communists’ armed party.”

Hurley was compelled to dismiss 11 State Department members. Upon return from China, however, they were mysteriously promoted, and some became Hurley’s superiors — after which he resigned.

“These professional diplomats,” he wrote, “were returned to Washington and were placed in the Far Eastern and China divisions of the State Department as my supervisors.”

This State Department clique employed several tactics to advance Chinese Communism. Among the chief: claiming Mao’s followers weren’t Communists, but merely “agrarian reformers.” Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto had commanded: “Workers of the world, unite!” But since China had little industry, Chinese Communists made farmers their focus. (I envision them barking, ”Pig-herders and rice-paddy waders…um—well,’ as you were,’ guys…”)

Professor Kenneth A. Colgrove testified

that Owen Lattimore informed him that “Chinese Communists under Mao Tse-tung were real democrats and that they were really agrarian reformers and had no connection with Soviet Russia.”

In 1943, T. A. Bisson wrote in Far Eastern Survey: “By no stretch of the imagination can this be termed ‘Communism’; it is, in fact, the essence of bourgeois democracy applied mainly to agrarian conditions.”

The State Department’s John P. Davies told Washington: “The Communists are in China to stay. And China’s destiny is not Chiang’s but theirs.”

An additional tactic: portraying Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists as “fascists,” “reactionary,” and “corrupt.”

General Wedemeyer conveyed this matter’s reality:

“Although the Nationalist Government of China was frequently and derisively described as authoritarian or totalitarian, there was a basic difference between it and its Communist enemies, since the Kuomintang’s ultimate aim was the establishment of a constitutional republic, whereas the Communists want to establish a totalitarian dictatorship on the Soviet pattern. In my two years of close contact with Chiang Kai-shek, I had become convinced that he was personally a straightforward, selfless leader, keenly interested in the welfare of his people, and desirous of establishing a constitutional government.”

John Carter Vincent, previously mentioned, referred to Mao and his followers as “so-called Communists.”

Raymond Ludden, another in the State Department clique, reported that “the so-called Communists are agrarian reformers of a mild democratic stripe more than anything else”

While some corruption undoubtedly existed in the Nationalist regime, Wedemeyer insightfully noted that corruption existed in all governments, including ours. For China, a conspiracy on the U.S. side compounded this. Their government offices had been displaced by Japan’s invasion; the Nationalists had to rely on paper currency. Runaway inflation threatened China’s economy. To stabilize the situation, Chiang Kai-shek requested a loan of U.S. gold. President Roosevelt approved, but the gold shipments were delayed and withheld by Assistant Treasury Secretary Harry Dexter White, long since proven to be a Soviet agent. This collapsed China’s currency. One can understand why some Chinese officials, forced to accept salaries paid in worthless money, turned to corruption.

Walter S. Robertson, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, informed the National Press Club in 1959:

“We stood by and saw China drift into a state of complete Economic collapse. The currency was worthless.... In China, we withheld our funds at the only time, in my opinion, we had a chance to save the situation. To do what? To force the Communists in.”

As a final tactic, State Department leftists demanded the Nationalists form a “coalition government” with the Communists. This was an old communist trick. By forcing the postwar governments of Poland, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia to form coalitions with communists, the Marxists seized control of those nations; Mao Tse-tung envisioned the same strategy for China. In his report “On Coalition Government,” made in April 1945 to the Seventh National Convention of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao predicted that a coalition would destroy both Chiang and “Reactionary American Imperialism.”

The State Department’s China clique echoed this call.

John P. Davies wrote in 1944: “A coalition Chinese Government in which the Communists find a satisfactory place is the solution of this impasse most desirable to us.”

A more realistic assessment of coalition government — which meant combining constitutional freedom with totalitarian gangsterism — was provided by Douglas MacArthur, who said it would have “about as much chance of getting them together as that oil and water will mix.”

At World War II’s close, Mao’s troops, armed by the Russians — both from American Lend-Lease and captured Japanese arsenals — began a full assault on the Nationalist government. Mao’s rebellion would have undoubtedly failed if not for interventions by George Marshall, whom President Truman designated his special representative to China. Yet another “Big Brass Buffoon”, he wasted no time in blundering China’s path to defeat and destruction.

Marshall had a remarkable penchant for being in “the wrong place at the wrong time.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt had advanced him over dozens of senior officers to become U.S. Army Chief of Staff. In that capacity, on December 7, 1941, he absented himself from his office on a notoriously long “horseback ride,” while junior officers sought his permission to warn Pearl Harbor of the impending attack.

During the Korean War, he was conveniently named Secretary of Defense; as such he overruled General MacArthur, saving the Yalu River’s bridges from destruction by the U.S. Air Force, and thus permitting Communist Chinese soldiers to invade Korea, which precluded victory by MacArthur, guaranteeing the stalemate that ultimately occurred. Regardless of where Marshall served, his actions fortified Communism and defeated American interests — a record summarized by the wrongfully maligned Senator Joseph McCarthy in his book America’s Retreat from Victory: The Story of George Catlett Marshall.

When Marshall first arrived in China, the Nationalists outnumbered the communists 5-1 in both troops and rifles, and were successfully driving them back. Marshall, however, imposed a total of three truces — which the Communists violated, allowing them to regroup, bring up Soviet supplies, and further train their guerillas. This expanded their control from 57 Chinese counties to 310.

General Claire Chennault recounted the impact of Marshall’s truces:

“North of Hankow some 200,000 government troops had surrounded 70,000 Communist troops and were beginning a methodical job of extermination. The Communists appealed to Marshall on the basis of his truce proposal, and arrangements were made for fighting to cease while the Communists marched out of the trap and on to Shantung Province, where a large Communist offensive began about a year later. On the East River near Canton some 100,000 Communist troops were trapped by government forces. The truce teams effected their release and allowed the Communists to march unmolested to Bias Bay where they boarded junks and sailed to Shantung.”

Marshall’s disastrous 15-month China mission ended in January 1947. Upon his return to the United States, President Truman rewarded his failures with appointment as Secretary of State. Marshall imposed a weapons embargo on the Nationalists, while the communists continued receiving a steady weapons supply from the USSR. Marshall boasted that he disarmed 39 anti-communist divisions “with a stroke of the pen.”

This doomed Chinese freedom.

China was sold out also in the manipulation of U.S. public opinion. An avalanche of books and news reports perpetuated the myth that Mao’s communists were “democratic agrarian reformers,” even though, once in power, they established a totalitarian Communist dictatorship, executing tens of millions of Chinese, in an orgy of atrocities that reached its height during the bloody Cultural Revolution. Yet, Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalists were portrayed as “fascist,” “reactionary,” and “corrupt.”

In his monumental book While You Slept, John T. Flynn exposed the media bias favoring Chinese Communists. Between 1943 and 1949, 22 pro-communist books appeared in the U.S. press, and only seven pro-Nationalist ones.

Also, reported Flynn:

“Every one of the 22 pro-Communist books, where reviewed, received glowing approval in the literary reviews, I have named — that is, in the New York Times, the Herald-Tribune, the Nation, the New Republic and the Saturday Review of Literature. And every one of the anti-Communist books was either roundly condemned or ignored in these same reviews”.

One reason the pro-communist books received such favor: reviews were written by writers of other such books. Flynn documented that 12 authors of the 22 pro-Red Chinese books wrote 43 complimentary reviews of the others’ books. This cozy “in-house” system guaranteed laudatory reviews. It left the American public — which generally knew little of Asian affairs — with indelible impressions. So severe was the bias, Flynn noted, that New York Times reviews were barely distinguishable from those in the communist Daily Worker.

. By 1948, due to Marshall’s weapons embargo, the Nationalist government faced nearly inevitable defeat by the Communists, who continued receiving unlimited weapons from Russia. Former U.S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt testified before the Committee on Foreign Affairs in March 1948:

“The American government has not delivered to China a single combat plane or a single bomber since General Marshall in August, 1946, by unilateral action, broke the promise of the American Government to the Chinese Government and suspended all deliveries of planes.... As a means of pressure to compel Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to take Communists into the Chinese Government, General Marshall stopped all fulfillment of this program and dishonored the pledge of the United States.”

With Japan’s 1945 defeat, Lend-Lease aid, sitting in India and slated for the Nationalists, was either destroyed or dumped in the ocean.

Although Dean Acheson deceptively told Congress the Nationalists had received over $2 billion in U.S. aid, most was non-military or unusable.

Colonel L. B. Moody, U.S. Army Ordnance Corps, clarified the realities:

“1. The inevitable defeat of the Nationalist army was due to their deficit in items of infantry weapons and especially ammunition, and the Communist superiority in these items.

2. Military aid to the Chinese meant infantry weapons and ammunition above all else and it is “precisely these items which the United States has consistently denied, delayed or limited. Only passing reference will be made to the billions of mouldy cigarettes, blown-up guns, and junk bombs and disabled vehicles from the Pacific Islands which have been totaled up with other real or alleged aid in various State Department, Communist and leftist statements to create the impression that we have furnished the Nationalist government with hundreds of millions or billions of useful fighting equipment.”

In April 1948, Congress, apprised of the desperate situation, granted $125 million in military assistance to save Chiang’s government. However, the first of this aid did not reach the Nationalists until seven months later (when China had become an issue in the 1948 elections). By contrast, after the British defeat at Dunkirk, U.S. ships needed only eight days to be loaded with munitions bound for Britain.

Anthony Kubek describes the first shipload reaching the Nationalists in late 1948:

“Of the total number, 480 of the machine guns lacked spare parts, tripod mounts, etc. Thompson machine guns had no magazines or clips. There were no loading machines for the loading of ammunition belts. Only a thousand of the light machine guns had mounts, and there were only a thousand clips for the 2,280 light machine guns.”

The embargo and subsequent sabotaging of congressionally mandated aid to the Nationalists spelled their doom. In 1949, the Communists completed conquest of China. Chiang Kai-shek and approximately two million followers escaped to Formosa (now called Taiwan), where they maintained the Republic of China’s government, establishing the island as a bastion of freedom.

The propaganda myth that Mao Tse-tung was an “agrarian reformer” evaporated as he formed a totalitarian Communist regime, slaughtering millions. Acheson and the State Department clique still hoped to recognize Communist China, but after Mao’s thugs seized U.S. consular officers, imprisoned and even murdered our citizens, and poured their troops into Korea to kill American soldiers, this U.S. recognition of China ended up being deferred for many years. One might wonder why it ever occurred at all, and why anyone would want to do any kind of business with a regime that has proven itself to be so diabolical and treacherous.

The general consensus, among those Americans who actually know, this inexcusable China disaster did not result from “blunders.” Congressman Walter Judd, an acknowledged Far East expert, said:

“On the law of averages, a mere moron once in a while would make a decision that would be favorable to the United States. When policies are advocated by any group which consistently work out to the Communists’ advantage, that couldn’t be happenstance.”

No truer words were ever spoken, sir.