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US did one HUGE mistake for refusing to give financial aid to RoC after the war, where the economy and infrastructure hugely damaged by the war.
The economy collapse just gave the CCP a huge propaganda advantage and win a lot of people heart over RoC. Chinese people at the time were still stupid and failed to see the evilness of the communism.
At the time, it's hard to say if US was a friend of RoC. US destroyed RoC's economy with their silver policy and then again just after WW2. European always fear with the hardworking attitude of East Asian people.
US suddenly want to became a good friend with RoC and understand how importance it is, after democracy bloc lost the entire mainland to the hand of the communist.
So basically, if China dislike US, it's a karma. I don't think Chinese people need to be to friendly with US as well. Unless US apologize and prove it with actions.
C'mon, why you think FDR make RoC into an important member of the victorious allies and a permanent seat at the security council?
Even Soviet Union would not openly pissed off RoC too much.
Why? Because everybody think that RoC would beat the CCP or at least one of the internationally recognized legitimate government of China. On paper, RoC hold all the winning card.
FDR hope he get a ally on the eastern front of the Soviet Union like Japan or South Korea today but much bigger, Or China become like Stalin hope, a divided China with North and South China like East and West Germany.
Mao/CCP overcame all the odds and gave China back to the Chinese.
Wikipedia-
Loss of China
The "
loss of China" refers, in U.S. political discourse, to the Communist Party take over
mainland China from the
Nationalists in 1949,
[1] and therefore the "loss of China to
communism". The "loss of China" was portrayed by critics of the
Truman Administration as an "avoidable catastrophe".
[2] It led to a "rancorous and divisive debate" and the issue was exploited by the
Republicans at the polls in 1952.
[3] It also played a large role in the rise of
Joseph McCarthy,
[4] who, with his allies, sought scapegoats for that "loss", targeting notably
Owen Lattimore, an influential scholar of Central Asia.
[5]
According to
Noam Chomsky,
“ In 1949, China declared independence, an event known in Western discourse as "the loss of China" – in the US, with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.
The terminology is revealing. It is only possible to lose something that one owns. The tacit assumption was that the U.S. owned China, by right, along with most of the rest of the world, much as postwar planners assumed. The "loss of China" was the first major step in "America's decline." It had major policy consequences.
[1] ”