The United States and China

This latest addition to the American Foreign Policy Library gains added timeliness from Mr. Dewey’s pledge that he would take more drastic action to save China from Communism. Mr. Fairbank, an outstanding authority on China, joins Stilwell and others free of Communist sympathies in demolishing the notion, seemingly shared by Dewey, that the present conflict is essentially one between Chinese nationalism and Russian imperialism. In regard to U.S. policy. Fairbank concludes: “To assume that what is good for us is without question good for the Chinese people, to ignore Chinese popular opinion, to accept as our allies in China anyone who will line up with us in power politics—this way of thought is supremely immoral [and] it will lead us to defeat in Asia.” Free enterprise, he stresses, is a meaningless slogan to the Chinese, who are probably headed for some form of collectivism. His book presents, in compact form and buttressed with impressive scholarship, a prodigious amount of information about China.