But Chiang’s visit to India also strengthened his view that the war was an opportunity to create a new, anti-imperialist united Asia. “Revolutionary opportunities are hard to find and easy to lose,” he chided Nehru at the final lunch they held on February 21. “This is India’s only good revolutionary opportunity. If we lose it, we won’t get it again.” Nehru was silent, “but seemed to understand.”30 Chiang followed up in March with another speech in which he once again urged the Indian leaders to back the Allies. He also stressed to the British that India was already supplying more soldiers than
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