
The Coming War on China
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- 2016
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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.
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
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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