Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai shek's KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino American conflict, and why Mao shelled