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In Chungking another parley between the Central Government and the Communists ended in deadlock. Encouraged by jovial U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, the Communists’ ace…

America’s quest to maintain a stranglehold on Middle East oil and the global economy has been largely left out of the corporate media’s rendering of Washington’s seven decades-long interventionist history in Iran.

1.In the 1950s, the late John King Fairbank, the dean of modern China studies at Harvard, used to tell us graduate students a joke about the allegation that a group of red-leaning foreign service officers and academics—the four Johns—had “lost” China: John Paton Davies, John Stewart Service, John Carter Vincent, and John King Fairbank himself. What the McCarthyites had

A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations.As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing airmen shot down over enemy territory. Chinese leaders talked of a future in which

Gen. Thomas Q. Ashburn was a passionate supporter of inland river transportation in the U.S., so much that the railroads came to despise him.

An inspection trip to mark the completion of the 6-foot channel on the Missouri River in 1932 was met with an enthusiastic reception.

Four large steam-powered dredges built for the U.S. Engineer Department opened up the Missouri River for navigation.

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In August 1945, Mao Tse Tung (Mao Zedong) and Zhou Enlai flew from Yan'an to China's wartime capital, Chongqing, to discuss

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