week6. Postwar China and the Rise of the Cold War in East Asia

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Were the US-China conflict and confrontation in 1949-1950 inevitable because the Chinese Communist Party did not intend to seek recognition of the US?

Even though the relationship between CCP and the U.S plunged to conflict immediately after the Chinese civil war in 1949, the conflict did not just occur from the beginning.
The CCP adopted initiative in the diplomatic field while confronting the GMD: perceiving that the United States would play an increasingly important role in China and East Asia.
Since the early days of the war in the Pacific, the CCP had been pursuing an "International united front" with the United States for two main objectives

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Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) Ch. 1 & 2, pp. 17-48.