US posters to help china in WWII

Ah, I remember a few of these. The second one I posted in my old 'China in WW2' thread. As you can see pretty clearly, Uncle Sam had no love for Mao and his communists. Can't blame them. At the time Mao must have looked like Bin-Laden at the time. A dirty rebbel with an army of rabblerousers fighting in the mountians. Not to say that is what he was, but that is how it probably looked...er...moving on.

Intresting posters, one could make a desktop of one of these.

At the begining of WWII , US and KMT see Mao as their enemy , but after winning the war , US government and Pre. Roosevlet realized that Jiang's cabinet is a corruption government , so they preferred to accept Mao .Unfortunetely , when PRC was founded , the cold war broke , President Truman refused to accecpt Mao , so Mao had to stand aside USSR .

Whereas , the Communist Party of China and chinese peopel have been appreciating American's help in WWII.

So Mao is not a Ben-laden , I think .

Propaganda to pull at people's great strings, anyone with actual knowledge of the KMT regime would know China wasn't democratic, it was more facist.

By demonizing Mao simply because he was communist and supporting Chiang, the US government proved in 1949 how short sighted and poorly thought out its foreign policy was and still is.

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"By demonizing Mao simply because he was communist and supporting Chiang, the US government proved in 1949 how short sighted and poorly thought out its foreign policy was and still is."

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Originally Posted by radiowave21

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"By demonizing Mao simply because he was communist and supporting Chiang, the US government proved in 1949 how short sighted and poorly thought out its foreign policy was and still is."

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In case you haven't noticed, the US is still reeling from many of it mistakes in the past, small groups and revolutionaries they've supported have gained great power and are now causing them problems i.e. Saddam, Osama, Taliban.

Plus many of the dictators they've supported in the past, like the Shah of Iran, have caused nations to overthrow them and become anti-US.

Who knows how many other potential Saddams or Osamas are now getting power, about to get power, or already have power but aren't so famous yet, there are now, all results of the US and it's foreign policy, using groups like these in the short term against 'bigger threats' and don't really consider the possible consequences of what will happen when people like these become powerful.

I think Ho Chi Minh is a very good example of that.

Definitely. I remember how Ho Chi Minh's declaration of independence was strongly influenced by the US's declaration...

Ah, the irony.

The political retoric must stop or this thread will be closed

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Aiya, apologies Popeye.

On a side note, as I'm interested in the visual arts and graphic design, examining propoganda posters over the years has been a very enlightening experience for me, especially regarding Chinese and Japanese stereotypes.

From what I've observed, from American views (at least propoganda-wise) whenever Japan's status goes 'down' (Example: WW2) China's goes 'up', and vice versa.

A particularly interesting trend (albeit disturbing one) in relatively recent times has been the development of two polar-opposite stereotypes about "Asians", which can be pasted like labels onto either the Chinese, or Japanese (or Koreans or Vietnamese) depending on the occasion. Some favorable Asian stereotypes include patience, cleanliness, courtesy, hard work; the unfavorable one puts particular emphasis on sneakiness, silent contempt, and cruelty. From what I've observed, these two stereotypes tend to alternate between the Japanese and Chinese hence when one is viewed favorably the other will be unfavorable.

In 1973, when China was still in the grip of the Cultural Revolution, a survey conducted among college students asking what chief images China evoked among them were, "Mao, Communism, Conformity, Ignorance" whereas at the same time Japan was seen in much more favorable terms, "Money, Cars, Hard-working, beautiful countryside".

A decade later, images of China became more positive. Although the overwhelming impression was still about China's huge size and population, the people were now described as "family oriented, dedicated, hard-working".

Sorry if this is kind of off-topic. It's just that propoganda posters are such great material for this kind of discussion...