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SummaryDr. Sara Castro (LinkedIn, Bio) joins Andrew (X; LinkedIn) to discuss the history of US-China diplomacy. Sara is an Associate Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy.
What You’ll LearnIntelligence
- The Dixie Mission
- The history of US-China relations dating back to the Opium Wars
- China’s involvement with the OSS during WWII
- How Mao Zedong & Chiang Kai-shek built modern China
Reflections
- Understanding and empathy
- Knowledge is power
And much, much more …
Resources SURFACE SKIM*Spotlight Resource*-
Mission to Mao: US Intelligence in China during World War II, Sara B. Castro, (Georgetown University Press, 2024)
*SpyCasts**Beginner Resources*DEEPER DIVEBooks
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Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World, A. Joske (Hardie Grant, 2022)
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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, M. Pillsbury (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016)
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Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945, R. Mitter (Mariner Books, 2013)
Primary Sources *Wildcard Resource*
- After the signing of the SACO Treaty in 1942, Chinese spymaster Dai Li took command of the US-China intelligence cooperation during World War II.
- Six decades later in 2005, Nickelodeon premiered the now immensely popular American anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender. In the series, the elite secret police agency of fictional capital city Ba Sing Se are appropriately named, The Dai Li.
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