Had the Kuomintang won, China would be ruled from Washington.
Its ports patrolled.
Its elections supervised.
Its economy opened like a carcass.
Mao did not just defeat an army.
He prevented a century of American ownership.
That is why they still hate him.
Not because of what he built.
But because of what he denied them.
Если бы демократия была действительно хорошей штукой, то китайцы её уже скопировали бы, а США не распихивали бы её силой по всему миру, а наложили бы экспортные ограничения.