The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

摘要

Winston Churchill reportedly remarked that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was "the only bull I know who carries his own China shop with him." This characterization was understood as applying not only to the dour diplomat's style, but also to the bellicose China policy of the American president whom he served, Dwight D. Eisenhower. For two decades after Eisenhower left office in January 1961, conventional wisdom characterized his China policy as rigid, moralistic, self-righteous and narrow-minded. Eisenhower and Dulles, judged by their public statements, appeared to be slavish followers of the so-called China Lobby, a loose association of pundits, legislators and lobbyists in thrall to Chiang Kai-shek's government on Taiwan and unremittingly hostile to the People's Republic of China.