Gee, d'ya think?
I was not impressed by the reports of Chaing's conduct at the Cairo conference. He seemed pedantic, demanding and unaware of his strategic situation.
FDR, Churchill and their military staffs were not impressed either. But then again, one has to understand Chaing’s strategy, and it was what you would expect from a Chinese leader.
Chaing was not going to defeat the Japanese and eject them from his country. We were going to do that for him. And we were also going to pay him tribute in the form of money and war material. He was not going to use any of it against Japan, and had no intention of doing so. He was going to hoard it to settle accounts with the Communists after we had rid China of the Japanese for him. Although I sometimes wonder if Chaing ever really intended to destroy Mao. He needed Mao as a boogeyman to keep Uncle Sugar’s tribute flowing.
Or so he thought.