A renewal of the Chinese civil war followed. Washington sought to apply its standard solution to such civil conflict, which has failed time after time then and in the decades afterward. It urged a coalition between the Nationalists and Communists, who had been battling each other for two decades. U.S. Ambassador Patrick Hurley convened a meeting between Chiang Kai-shek and Communist Party leader Mao Zedong in September 1945 at Chiang’s capital in Chongqing. Both leaders dutifully attended while preparing for a final showdown. No sooner had the Hurley meeting concluded than the two sides recommenced hostilities.

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