Harry Truman’s growing distrust with both Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong was reaching the high-water mark when Secretary of State Dean Acheson (1893 – 1971) announced the President’s China policy during the earliest days of 1950:
“No official military aid for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese Nationalist government, either on the island of Formosa [Taiwan] or anywhere else. No hasty recognition of the Communist Chinese government of Mao Zedong. No attempt to stop further Russian advances in Asia except through ‘friendly encouragement’ to India, French Indo-China, Siam, Burma and the new United States of Indonesia…”
