ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, I scrutinised how, when judging the situation on the Korean Peninsula in June 1950, the Truman administration decided that interposing the Seventh Fleet in the Taiwan Strait was the only reasonable course of action in dealing with the Chinese Communists. In other words, I examined how a policy of intervention in the Chinese Civil War, fi rst regarded by the Truman administration as counterproductive to American interests, came to be deemed necessary and non-intervention unthinkable.
