ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how fickle the United States has been toward the Republic of China (ROC) during the decades, since the start of the second Sino-Japanese war of 1937, and how determined a majority of American citizens are to defend the ROC. The United States has always been Europe-oriented, and before Pearl Harbor the Soviet Union gave more military aid to the ROC than did the United States. The ROC also has expanded the number of information officers at the major consulates, realizing that the Nixon visit to the mainland in 1973 made it popular for even conservative Americans to be pro-Peking. Few Americans knew the history of Russian expansionism in the Far East or even the history of Asian nations, and it is true to say that the United States was probably the least imperialistic power in China before 1945.
