Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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burned a intoxicating sensation of vindication.
These Western powers who had been so impatient with Chinese strategy, who had mocked the retreats of the Nationalist Army.
And spoken scornfully of Japanese capabilities.
We're now themselves in headlong retreat from those very islanders.
In Hong Kong, Singapore, and Manila, British and American forces would be fighting desperately for their lives against the Japanese military that China had been contending with for four years.
Chang could not have failed to perceive the irony.
The Japanese had conquered vast stretches of China through relentless campaigns.
Yet Westerners had dismissed Chinese resistance as
Inadequate.
Now the Japanese were proving that they posed a formidable challenge to Western military power as well.
There was a bitter satisfaction in this vindication, even as Chang understood that the strategic implications of American entry far outweighed any emotional satisfaction.
What was pragmatic and strategically clear to Chang, however, was far more important than any emotional satisfaction.
The United States was now at war, and it was on China's side.
This represented the transformation for which Chang had labored for years, bringing the full weight of American industrial capacity and military might to bear against the Japanese.
The diplomatic foundations for this alliance had already been laid out in the months preceding Pearl Harbor.
Beginning in the spring of nineteen forty one, the United States had begun to commit significant resources to supporting China.
In April of nineteen forty one, following the conclusion of the Soviet Japanese neutrality agreement, which had devastated Chinese morale by suggesting that Japan might attack the Soviet Union rather than move southward,
The Roosevelt administration had determined to provide forty-five million worth of militarily useful commodities to China as an immediate gesture of support.
Then on May the sixth of nineteen forty one, President Roosevelt had made a more formal commitment by announcing that the munitions provisions of the Lenlease Act applied to China, declaring a phrase that captured the strategic logic of American assistance.
Defending China is the key to defending America.
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