ABSTRACT
In 1943, the United States and China reached an agreement that freed US troops in China from Chinese criminal jurisdiction. During the war, the Communists were successful in persuading the Chinese people in areas they controlled to give them food and shelter. In March 1942, the first Chinese National Aviation Corporation cargo planes began flying the Hump air route across the southern Himalayas into southwest China from Assam, India. The Communists and Nationalists held negotiations from May to September 1944 at Sian. China also received a loan of $500 million from the United States, but it carried with it project-by-project conditions as we as political contingencies. The United States had dispatched a military mission to China that agreed to form a modern Chinese air force, secure a line of communication into China, and equip thirty divisions of Chinese troops.
