Who Lost China? a grande pergunta da política externa dos EUA nos anos 1950 - ADST

Os americanos, considerados bons mas essencialmente, ingênuos como Churchill, Aron e muitos europeus acreditavam que fossem, sempre acharam, pelo menos a partir de 1917, que o mundo girava em função do que Washington e Wall Street desejavam.
Quando um general corrupto foi derrotado por um líder comunista na China, eles ficaram procurando culpados, entre eles, no Departamento de Estado, um dos objetos preferidos de persguição do Senador McCarthy, que achava que os diplomatas eram todos comunistas enrustidos.
Pois bem, a Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training faz um excelente trabalho de história oral.
Ela agora oferece depoimentos sobre a partida dos americanos da China, que foram junto com o general corrupto para Taiwan, e ali ficaram pelos 20 anos seguintes, até um presidente corrupto, mas esperto, aquele escroque do Nixon, resolveu acabar com a fantasia.
Pouco depois, o nosso general Geisel resolveu reconhecer a China comunista, e com isso despertou a fúria do nosso McCarthy, o general Sylvio Frota, que quase acaba "demitindo" o Geisel da presidência.
Onde está a nossa história oral sobre isso?
Bem, existem depoimentos de Geisel e de Silveirinha ao Cpdoc. Mas eles contaram tudo? Provavelmente não...
Falta, ao Itamaraty, um programa de história oral.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida

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The decision to close an embassy and order departure of diplomatic personnel is a signal of last resort that bilateral relations are damaged and unlikely to improve soon. This occurred in China when Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Party fled the capital and retreated to Taiwan on December 8, 1949 in the wake of Mao Zedong’s establishment […]

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