The American Conservative
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Japan ’s full-scale invasion of China in 1937 opened the way for the communist takeover of China .
American opinion-makers of the 1940s came to see the communist rebels as more virtuous and progressive than the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai-shek .
U.S. policy shifted decisively in support of Taiwan once the true horrors of Maoism began to emerge.
China has “completely turned its back on its revolutionary origins,” says one scholar.
The good news, in the view of Paulès , is that today ’s China looks a lot more like the modernizing KMT than it does the impoverishing CCP under Mao .
But is it too much to assert that the CCP has changed its spots? The continuation of “free China ” in Taiwan matters greatly.
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