Chiang Kai-shek was not privy to any of the Yalta discussions about China’s future, but he had his suspicions. “The influence of this conference on China will be great,” he acknowledged. “I hope Roosevelt isn’t plotting with Churchill and Stalin against me.” When he heard even the public terms of the agreement, Chiang was plunged into gloom, thinking that the world would be thrown back into the same race for dominance that had marked the aftermath of the Great War. “This meeting of the three leaders has already carved the seeds of the Third World War,” he wrote. “Roosevelt is still calling
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