"The same goes for Patton in regards to the Soviet Union."
Exactly.
On the Red China thing, here's a clip from something I wrote you may find interesting:
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Currie, Service, Vincent, and Acheson's Policies Towards China and Korea
Throughout World War II, Soviet agents had worked to undermine US support for the Nationalist rivals of the Chinese Communists. One of the Soviet agents active in this effort was Laughlin Currie, a member of the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group's "Goon Squad" who was also a member of a Soviet spy ring called the "Silvermaster group", after its leader Nathan Gregory Silvermaster. In 1942 Currie recommended that the post of ambassador to China should be filled by either Vincent or Owen Lattimore, a China expert who had been recruited to government service in 1941 by Currie and Soviet agent Harry Dexter White. This recommendation was not acted upon, but in 1945, when the State Department was reorganized under Byrnes, Vincent, who was the department's head of China Affairs, recommended that Lattimore be offered a job in the department. Lattimore was not hired because the department's outgoing Far Eastern expert vetoed his appointment, but Vincent became Acheson's main advisor on Southeast Asia policy and also worked closely with him on China policy. Vincent and Service persuaded Acheson that the US should support the Chinese Communists to drive a wedge between China and Russia.
After adopting this policy, Acheson stated to Congressman Walter Judd in early 1947 that he did not see an imminent threat of Communism taking over China. Meanwhile, Acheson's superior in the State Department, Secretary of State George Marshall—-whose career had been promoted by Soviet agent Harry Hopkins-—secretly prepared to abandon US commitments to Taiwan and establish US relations with a unified Communist China. When Acheson replaced Marshall as Secretary of State in 1949, he advocated abandoning Taiwan and recognizing Communist China to drive a wedge between China and Russia. Applying this policy to US relations with South Korea, Acheson announced on January 12, 1950 that South Korea lay outside the US defense perimeter, publicizing the conclusions of a top-secret National Security Council military analysis called "Plan Dropshot" that had been developed by a panel of advisors which included Marshall. Two weeks after Acheson's announcement, on January 30, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin telegrammed the Soviet ambassador in North Korea that he would provide military support to North Korea, which the Soviet ambassador took as approval to plan an offensive against South Korea.
Have you ever read None Dare Call it Treason? It's about the same topic you excerpted for me. The communist influence in our State Department during the beginning of the Cold War.