The Communist Party had also fixed its sights on American liberalism. By the 1920s, the party’s cofounder, Chen Duxiu, who had once branded Woodrow Wilson “the number one good man in the world,” had lost his affection for the American Way. When he learned that US immigration officers had detained a group of Chinese students at the US border, he exulted. Let those Chinese suffer, he sneered, because “it is public knowledge that almost every single American-trained student opposes revolution, worships money, and idolizes the United States. The fewer such Chinese the better.”
