Sara B. Castro, Mission to Mao: U.S. Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024); Zach Fredman, The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022). Confucius says, “To have friends come from afar to visit, is that not, indeed, a joy?
” Not always, as it turns out — at least when those friends are Americans coming to help in World War II. This is the argument of two recent books documenting the fractious cooperation between the United States, the Chinese Communist Party,The post With Friends Like These: World War II Advisory Efforts and the Origins of Sino-U.S. Competition appeared first on War on the Rocks.