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Check googlebooks and you'll fine your reference.Which incident was this? Not even the Chinese communist party has brought this up.
If Marshall had not been so anxious to get a cease-fire between the
Communists and Nationalists, the US might have made more of the Anping Ambush
of July 1946. (Are three US Marines killed and one later dying of his wounds
"significant fighting"? It depends in part on the attitude the US takes
toward it.) Making urban revolution in China ... - Joseph K. S. Yick - Google Books
"Yenan initially believed the reports of its East Hibei Militaty District
that US forces had been supporting Nationalist troops in an attack on An
Ping. They interpreted the incident as an indication that the United States
was prepared to intervene militarily on the side of Chiang in the civil war.
Chou En-lai speculated that perahps the Marines had provoked an incident so
as to justify their continued presence in China. It was not until two weeks
later that the East Hibei Military District admitted that its troops had
first opened fire on the Americans. The Central Committee considered
axknowledging the mistake but decided instead to stonewall, noting that many
Chinese accepted the Communists' propaganda and blamed the incident on the
Nationalists.
"Marshall angrily told Chou that he knew what had actually happened, but he
chose not to make an issue of the incident. He was convinced that a public
statement would only play 'directly into the hands of the small group in the
Kuomintang who are blocking me in my efforts to terminate the fighting.'..."
In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese ... - Ronald H. Spector - Google Books