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Recently US President Donald Trump visited China. During this time, every picture of him with Xi Jinping was seen by the world as an acrimony between the two superpowers. How the two leaders walked, whose chair was higher, how they shook hands and how the conversation took place. The world had an eye on every picture and everyone saw that ‘Cold War’ appeared in conversations too. But were the relations between these two countries always bitter like this in history? No, the pages of history say something else.
There was a time when both the countries were together in a divided world. Both of them fought wars together. In the Second World War, both were fighting the enemy together. But how did relations turn sour after that? How both became enemies of each other.
was once an ally of America China
Two years before the official start of World War II, China was an important, but often forgotten, member of the Allies fighting Japan. During this period, China fought shoulder to shoulder with America against Japan. Even before the start of the Second World War, China’s war with Japan was going on.
Within a few weeks, technologically superior Japanese forces captured Beijing. They also captured the trading center Shanghai in November 1937. The Imperial Japanese Army responded to Chinese resistance with increasingly brutal atrocities, the most notorious of which occurred after entering the Chinese Nationalist capital Nanjing (or Nanking) in December 1937. Over a six-week period, the Japanese military massacred 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers and civilians and sexually assaulted thousands of women.
How America And China became friends
Here, when the Second World War started in 1939 and Japan attacked America’s Pearl Harbor. When America lost sight of the importance of China to check Japanese power. They did not have weapons. Then in 1940 and 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave China a loan to purchase military material and included it in the Lend-Lease program.
If China had surrendered as expected in 1938, the entire course of World War II would have changed. China kept Japan on its soil. When the United States and Britain joined the war against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor, China was supplied with military equipment, money, and military advisors. Along with this, China’s global stature also increased.
American fight jets were using Chinese airports
Then American fighter jets used Chinese airports to attack Japanese targets. Again, the burden of the land war remained on China and the Japanese army remained trapped in China, facing an all-out war. America and other friendly countries benefited greatly from this.
This is how the enmity between America and China started
When imperialist Japan was expanding its footprint in China, China was embroiled in a civil war. There was a civil war between the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party of Chiang Kai-shek and the communist forces of Mao Zedong. Then, during the Second World War, Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist army along with communist fighters resisted Japan. America and other friendly countries had greatly helped Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist army in confronting Japan.
With the surrender of Japan in the Second World War, civil war again broke out in China and the fight for Mao’s communist revolution began. It overthrew the nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949. As the communist government became effective in China, China’s tension with America increased. After 1949, when Mao and the Communists gained power in the mainland. At that time it became almost unacceptable to say anything positive about the Chiang Kai-shek regime.
In such a situation, America whose anti-communist policy divided the world into a new world order and with this the era of cold war had started. During the Cold War, the factionalism of the World War era had ended and China had emerged as a communist country which was now closer to Russia than America.
In this way, with the end of the Second World War and the formation of the Communist government in China, China’s role as a member of the Allies on both sides of the Pacific Ocean also began to fade. Gradually, China’s role came to the fore as America’s arch adversary instead of its ally. By the peak of the Cold War, the tension between America and China increased so much that both became enemies of each other.
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