Conflicts

Onset of the Conflicts

同我们最敌对的国家，应该对它坚决斗争。
We should determinedly fight with the country that is the most hostile to us.

-Chinese Foreign Minister Zhou En-lai, Speech, 1952

As long as I am President, if I can prevent it, that cut throat organization will never be recognized by us as the Government of China.

-American president Harry S. Truman, private letter, 1951

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Bamboo Curtain

Shifting Alliances

picture source: [1] Zhou Enlai. Baike, baike.baidu.com [2] Harry S. Truman Library. Portrait of President Harry S. Truman. The Catalog