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high tide.
Low tide?
“we’re not afraid that America will be the dominant power in East Asia; we’re afraid that it
won’t
If there was to be a hegemonic power, he thought, then better the US than Japa...
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Colonel David Barrett (left) and diplomat John Service
The delivery of Roosevelt’s note was a watershed. For this short moment of satisfaction, Stilwell would pay a very heavy price. US-China relations for the next quarter century would pay an even heavier one.
Arguably they are still paying some of that price today.
