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China And America War
Do you know the US had
also intended to drop atomic bomb on China and what was its outcome?
What was the role of
Pakistan and Indian army in the Korean war?
What was the result of
fight between the US and Russian war planes?
I am Muhammad Sadaqat
Ali and you are read 'History of
China'...
from Opium to the CEPC.
On October 1,1949 when
Mao was announcing establishment of Peoples Republic of China... the world was
standing on the threshold of the atomic war. America had already developed a
nuclear bomb four years ago and dropped it on Japan. On the other side, Russia
was also preparing the atomic weapons quietly. After defeat to Hitler, Russia
had imprisoned over 200 German scientists. They were manufacturing atomic bomb
in Russia. On August 29,1949, one months before Mao came into power, Russia
exploded atomic bomb. But Mao's Chinese revolution was also not less than an
atomic blast in the world politics. As America had now, not one but two major
rivals to deal with. China then was a poor country but the largest in term of
area and population in the world. The Chinese Communists revolution gave
sleepless nights to America. America and Europe cried out at the possibility of
Easter Asian states, like Korea, Japan, Vietnam... and other falling to the
Communists revolution. In order to counter this threat, the US began to prepare
more lethal atomic weapons... and also develop its ally, Britain, into an
atomic power. It is the same America which today is the champion of nuclear
non-proliferation. A year after the Chinese revolution, a situation emerged
that might lead the US to nuclear attack on China. Korea was the main reason
for it. America and Russia had divided Korea into North and South and drew a
boundary between the two. It was called 38-Parallel. North Korea, where Kim Il
Sung ruled, was under the Russian influence. He was the grandfather of the
sitting ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. He wanted to take away South Korea
from US clutches and reunite both the parts. China and Russia both were helping
him in this behalf. Kim Sung trained the guerilla army of over 6000 soldiers. And
secretly pushed it into South Korea. With the help of their local sympathizers,
the guerilla force attacked the army of South Korea. As per the US CIA, Kim
Sung visited Moscow following success of the Guerilla attacks. He met Stalin
and Moa and got their permission to attack South Korea.
135,000 soldiers of
North Korea entered South Korea on June 25, 1950. Interestingly, the CIA
Intelligence Center in South Korea knew the North Korean army had come into
action. But the US did nothing. As the US knew Russia would not risk triggering
the third World War by encouraging war in Korea. The CIA todate accepts its
failure to assess the N. Korean attack as a major intelligence blunder. The US
folly rendered the North Korean attack highly successful. With the help of
Russia tanks, North Korea captured Seoul, the Capital of South Korea in 3 days.
The army of South Korea faced crushing defeat on every front due to shortage of
weapons. Now America could not be silent any more. So the US declared North
Korea invader and began aerial attacks on its army. It did not rest here but
also got a resolution passed from the UNO for sending international force to
help S.Korea. Since Russia had boycotted the meeting and China's permanent seat
in the Security Council was.. with Chiang Kai Shek, who was dead adversary of
Mao and the Communists, therefore Russia and China... could not veto the US
resolution on International force. Pakistan and India also supported the
resolution for international troops in South Korea. Immediately the US
resolution was carried International force of 16 countries was got ready.
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American General Douglas
Mac Arthur was appointed commander of this force. It was the same person who
had defeated Japan in the World War II. Do you know what role Pakistan played
in this war?
When America demanded
Pakistan for providing two brigades of army for sending them to South Korea... Prime
Minister Liaqat Ali Khan curtly refused the demand. However, he offered to send
5000 tones of wheat for the international troops. For the sake of reference it
is to tell you that Liaqat Ali Khan had turned down every demand of America. He
had even refused to give Budbher Airbase near Pashawar to America for
surveillance of Russia. However when Gen. Ayub Khan was the Army Chief during
the period of Sikander Mirza... then the same airbase was handed over to
America. The tales of the regimes of Liaqat Ali Shaheed, Sikander Mirza and
Ayub Khan have also already been... shown to you in the History of Pakistan . Anyway
Liaqat Ali Khan saved Pakistan from entering the Korean war. India too did not
send army but provided a medical unit for the assistance of the international
forces. Including India, 41 countries helped the International forces in
different ways. Under the command of Douglas MacArthur, American and the Allied
Forces entered South Korea. And they surrounded a major part of the invading
army.
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North Korea faced the
rivals strongly but absence of the air-force enabled the enemy to dominate it. In
a strong attack by the Allied Forces, 65000 North Korean soldiers were either
killed or arrested. Thousands hid themselves for guerilla fight while 25000
North Koreans fled back to their country. The US had won the war and now it had
the best chance to end it with a grace. But Gen. Douglas MacArthur turned out
to be a proud person. He wanted to capture North Korea and teach the Communists
a lesson. He also regarded the Chinese inferior so he ignored the warning from
China of entering... the war due to attack on North Korea. MacArthur also had
the objective of contesting for the US presidentship as Republican candidate. So
his job could become easy if he had achieved a big success on the front of
North Korea. So with this aim, MacArthur continued attack on North Korea. But
the Chinese army also came into action as soon as the US forces crossed the
border of North Korea. On the night of 13 and 14 September 1950, thousands of
Chinese crossed the Yellow River... and entered North Korea. 800,000 reserved
force was standing alert in China to reinforce the Chinese troops fighting in
North Korea. But the American CIA and the military high command failed to get
the slightest clue to it. It was the second major intelligence lapse of
America, for which it paid a heavy price. Chinese soldiers hid themselves on
the mountains and in the jungles in North Korea and attacked... the Allied
troops as soon as they come near them.
As many as 10000 US and
Korean soldiers were killed and injured in the first assault. This attack by
the Chinese was merely a trailer. The Chinese were only assessing the potential
of the enemy. When they got the idea of how much the enemy was powerful they
hid themselves again. MacArthur still failed to comprehend the power of the
Chinese army. He thought the enemy had fled instead of fighting. He also sent
his army to the forests to manhunt the Chinese soldiers. But the Allied
soldiers fell prey to the Chinese trap. The Chinese attacked the Allied from
all around and caused them so huge losses that they quit North Korea. It was
the historic defeat of America.
Do you know what was the
reason behind this defeat?
Chinese army had adopted
the same war technique that of the long march. That was secretly reaching the
enemy so close that he was unable to benefit from its artillery and airforce. And
then wash the enemy away. Importantly, the Chinese had neither air-force nor
modern weaponry. They had almost no trucks to carry the supplies for this large
army. Arms and food for the soldiers were carried even on the bicycles.
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After expelling the US
from North Korea, the Chinese soldiers entered South Korea and captured Seoul.
Now the number of
Chinese army had enhanced. But here was a problem as millions of Chinese had
reached the front and were in the open areas. Therefore attacking the enemy
from the hideouts was not possible. Therefore the US artillery and the airforce
bombed the Chinese to pushed them back to the border. Both the armies again
reached the borders that is, at 38-Parallel. But the American army had lost the
contact. Hence it was not in a position to move forward. US President Truman
removed the arrogant Gen. MacArthur for not obeying the orders. MacArthur was
quite popular at that time. So the people protested his removal but Truman did
not reinstate MacArthur. But Truman had also assessed his low popularity that
would not allow him to contest for presidentship again. Therefore he announced
not to contest the next election. So the war wrecked the political career of
MacArthur and Truman both. It may be mentioned that Truman and MacArthur both
wanted to bomb atoms on China and... North Korea to spoil Chinese successes in
the war. In a media talk, Truman had even hinted about the possible atomic
attack in the Korean war. American officials and generals also supported bombing
atoms on the Chinese cities. But Mao warned the US against the use of atomic
bombs saying, it can trigger third Word War. The threat of atomic attack by the
US President was not merely verbal. The US army had also shifted the atomic
weapons to the base near China in the Pacific Ocean. Everything was ready for
atomic attack on China and North Korea. Truman was the same US president who
had ordered to drop atom bomb on Japan. So it was useless to expect any mercy
from him. But the US also knew the Soviet Russia would certainly respond to the
use of atomic bomb against China. Therefore the stage of using atomic bomb did
not reach in the Korean war. Despite threats of atomic attack, Mao was resolute
on the other hand. He wanted to conquer South Korea at any cost. American and
the Chinese armies were repeatedly attacking each other. They were capturing
little bit of others land in every attack. The Chinese army in an attack on a
front in 1953, pushed back the Allied forces by 30 kms
But before the attack Stalin,
the Russian head of the state and Mao's closed ally, died. It was a big shock
for China as well. Stalin had helped China and North Korea in a big way in his
lifetime. China did not have airforce and Stalin provided it with Mig-15
aircraft and the pilots. Since Russia was not practically at war with the US as
such its aircraft did not hit the Americans directly. They only defended the
Chinese army against the US air bombardment. That too, in a small area of North
Korea. The area being defended by the Russian airforce was named 'Mig Alley' by
the Americans. The US and the Russians aircraft had intense dog-fights in the
North Korean skies for 2 and a half years. History records it as the maiden
combat of the jet fighters. The Russian Migs held a superiority over the
Americans' That they flew at a high altitude and got concealed in the clouds
and hit the US planes when... they would flew underneath.
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Why Mao was angry with
Pakistan?
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to threat China?
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Nehru that founded Pakistan-China friendship?
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