The Coming War on China

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A resistance known as the Boxer Rebellion

was put down with a savagery.

This rape of China set the tone

for how China was perceived in the West

well into the 20th century.

This is the distinguished historian

Theodore H. White, an

advisor to the White House,

speaking in the 1960's.

- Perhaps China is too vast

to be governed by mercy.

Yet if Chinese mind craves order,

they must be brought to recognize

they are the biggest factor

in the world's disorder.

And we must untangle the

madness of their mind.

The most difficult task in the world

is to reach the minds of men who hate you.

- [John Narrating] What White

was really complaining about

was the loss of a China that

the imperial West could dominate

and the defeat of General Chiang Kai-Shek,

who with his famously

powerful Christian wife,

Mei-ling Soong, guarded

America's interests in China.

That is, until they

were thrown out in 1949

by a communist revolution

led by Mao Zedong.

- Mao had beaten Chiang

Kai-Shek three times

in huge battles involving

millions of combatants.

Mao was a winner in this contest from

the early 1930's on, but we

knew very little about it

and people don't

understand that even today.

- [Announcer] Shanghai

hears the message clearly

as foreign businessmen

board up their shops.

Go now, go quickly, for communism marches.

Take what you can, but flee.

In pell-mell haste, the Western powers

evacuate the city they have built,

for good and bad alike must leave.

The businessmen come for profit

as well as missionaries come to heal

must say goodbye as out the Yancy

steams the last of Western influence

and farewell to a century.

(shouting)

- [John Narrating] Even today,

it's difficult to understand

the paranoia ignited by Mao's revolution.

- As we look at China on the map,

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