Re:Uh.. (Score 1)

NO one believed in the negotiation between KMT and CCP, including the US government.

This statement can be trivially disproven.

I would like to see some evidence.

Furthermore, I said nothing about anyone's intelligence (or lack thereof). Being smart is not necessarily proof against making mistakes. Neither is being in a position of power.

Of course, smart people make mistakes, but every mistake smart people made is not without a reason. I didn't see your justification about US government's position in Chinese civil war: where had they miscalculated, what were their strategies in those issues? Simply saying they were wrong is not sufficient.

The fact remains that the US government threatened to withhold aid from Chiang if he didn't negotiate.

I have different opinions on this. Chiang's reluctant to negotiate with CCP only attested his political short-sightedness. Essentially, war is the extension of politics. If one wants to strangle his enemy militarily, then he needs to strangle his enemy politically: especially it was a civil war. That the US government had to force him to join the negotiation table seems so bizarre: it is no different from a political suicide to me.

Also hope you can understand my stance: the negotiation is only of political significance. Another fact: the US government only cut aid from Chiang when he failed in the battleground. Actually I think I understand US's stance on this whole issue. Their mistake I'd like to say is that they didn't bet on both sides: it is of course extremely difficult considering the then political atmosphere. So I have no better solution.