'"(As for the United States) for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance....We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."--Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commandant, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing.'
What is it, specifically, that he believes requires vengeance?
If you read Kennan, re the latter 19th and early 20th Century, the US was, ostensibly, China's main, if quite naive, defender, against other, imperialist, powers. The US was certainly however also heavily involved, among other Western Powers, in the China trade. Open door, etc.
Is it participation in the China trade itself to which he refers as requiring vengeance, or later affronts after Mao, or both, or some third thing?
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