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Harry Truman’s China Policy: Mccarthyism and the Diplomacy of Hysteria, 1947-1951

July 1977 Published on July 1, 1977
United States - Foreign Affairs
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The author argues, on the basis of familiar published sources, that the Truman Administration acted against its better judgment in pursuing an antagonistic policy toward Communist China. The reason: McCarthyite pressure. A good contrary case could be made that American policy would have been fundamentally the same, Joe McCarthy or no.

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