White Paper

United States [1949]

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China

  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
    In 20th-century international relations: The Chinese civil war

    …August 5 a State Department White Paper announced the cessation of all aid to the Nationalists and concluded that “the ominous result of the civil war in China is beyond the control of the government of the United States.” The remaining Nationalists fled to the island of Formosa (Taiwan), and…

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