On The Influence Of "Red Panic" On Truman Administration 's Decision To China

During the Red Scare, originally a normal American reaction to address themove, was replaced by a certain type of crazy counter-attack. As the Cold Warintensified and U.S. domestic politics became increasingly reactionary, ideas on Chinaissues advocating anti-communist views incrementally gained an upper hand. Underthe Red Scare atmosphere,under the political pressures of public opinion and domesticinterest groups, the Truman administration, out of fear of being accused of " pro "communist China,tried bitterly to show its anti-communist zeal and in this case,ruineda possible US-China reconciliation. In the clamor of anti-communist Red Scareatmosphere, Truman administration formally completed the transformation of itsChina policy.Although U.S. rulers realized that the United States withdrawing from theChinese civil war was then the best policy, at that moment,the United States hadreached a fanatical anti-communism acme. This pressure caused the U.S. policy ofsupporting anti-communist Kiang to go deeper and deeper, which was why policy-makers can not forfeit wrong policies,while having foreseen adverse consequencesentailed by the policy.Series of U.S. domestic anti-communism campaigns promoted U.S. Chinesepolicy in the wrong direction, and prompted the ruling group to take anti-communismstance. This extreme anti-communist ideology and practice of the ideology ofAmerican foreign policy, not only stand contrary to the American "freedom" idea,but also because of hearsay allegations, triggered a flood of social problems, whichwas a serious threat to the United States’ established concept of “Democracy andFreedom”.Although, judicial guarantees provided by democracy, the pursuit of the ideal offreedom and the spirit of tolerance pulled American society out of the darkness in theend. However, to avoid the habituate concept of equaling national interests with theideological ideas in any case once again causing China-US relations a real danger,It is necessary for the two sides to incorporate their bureaucratic systems into a cooperative network.