The Japanese, who we had just defeated in their (and China's) own backyard, accomplished it only 10 to 15 years before. China had suffered constant war for a very long time. Even under Mao's "enlightened" leadership, that takes a toll.
We certainly had little chance of defeating China when Truman would not let us attack the Chinese bases and infrastructure at the same time that its troops were attacking us. A variation of that foolish continued in Viet Nam.
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“A government big enough to give you everything you need is strong enough to take everything you have.” Thomas Jefferson--the first Democrat President
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