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The China White Paper is the common name for United States Relations with China, with Special Reference to the Period 1944-1949, published in August 1949 by the United States Department of State in response to public concern about the impending victory of Chinese Communist forces in the Chinese Civil War. Secretary of State Dean Acheson directed his staff to prepare it in order to answer critics of American policy who blamed the administration for the "Loss of China".[1] The introduction by Acheson became controversial. Acheson wrote: During the presidential campaign of 1948, as Cold War fears of communist global expansion mounted, critics of the Truman administration heatedly raised the question "Who Lost China?." Criticism mounted after Truman's surprising victory in the election as the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong steadily defeated Chinese Nationalist armies of Chiang Kai-shek and was winning the Chinese Civil War. In November 1948 John Paton Davies proposed a collectio

China White Paper - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1949 U.S. Department of State publication The China White Paper is the common name for United States Relations with China, with Special Reference to the Period 1944—1949 , published in August 1949 by the United States Department of State in response to public concern about the impending victory of Chinese Communist forces in the Chinese Civil War . Secretary of State Dean Acheson directed his staff to prepare it in order to answer critics of American policy who blamed the administration for the " Loss of China

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