Just three weeks after Pearl Harbor, as it became clear that China would have to bow to US and British priorities when it came to providing military supplies, Chiang wrote (at the first Three-Power conference) that China had been “shamed” by the way that she was treated by the Americans and the British.10 Although Roosevelt had disappointed Chiang, it was the other ally, the British, who bore the brunt of his criticism. “The British don’t take us seriously,” Chiang wrote, adding, “The next generation should understand the difficulty of building the country up from its past shame.”
