Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The Secrets Of China's Cold War Strategy | Mao's Cold War | Timeline" video.

  1. Calling Mao "the founder of Chinese Communism itself," at 0:38, is incorrect. Mao was one of the leaders of the southern, largely rural, grouping of the Chinese Communist Party. This grouping of the Party became important after the Kuomintang's murder of many of the Party's leaders, including most of the urban and northern leadership, in 1928. In the course of the so-called Long March, the retreat of the survivors of this group to Yunnan, Mao emerged as one of the top leaders -- but even then required the permission of other Yunnan leaders to marry Qiang Qing. During WWII the Japanese crippled the Kuomintang and the few remaining urban Communists. Like George Washington, Mao Zedong was the tallest of the revolution's leaders. The tale of the "tactical retreat" from Pusan leading to the invasion at Inchon, at 6:11, is utter fiction. After UN forces, British, American, Turkish and Korean, were pushed south to the Pusan perimeter in 1950 they were subsequently victorious, and the North Koreans retreated. The subsequent invasion at Inchon, a brilliant success for the US Marines and Navy, was conducted by entirely different troops, and General Douglas "dug-out Doug" MacArthur claimed it as his victory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pusan_Perimeter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Inchon https://www.history.com/topics/korea/inchon MacArthur's previous record consisted mainly of his defeat in the Philippines: he had relied for his security at Bataan upon the big gun emplacements built by his father a generation earlier; the Japanese Navy shelled the hills above the guns, silencing them with rock slides. MacArthur fled by motor-boat. After the Marines' victory at Inchon, MacArthur bloviated about invading North Korea and was fired by President Truman.
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