That's interesting. Anthony Kubek in, "How The Far East Was Lost: American Foreign Policy and The Creation of Communist China, 1941-1949" appears to think (from the reviews i've read), that the united states created a vacuum of power in the orient, by totally crushing japan, instead of leaving japan intact and powerful enough to provide a balance of power between imperial japan, nationalist forces in china and internationalist/communist forces in china and russia.
Perhaps not surprisingly, there's a wikipedia article on "the china hands" that seems to attack so called "revisionist" history of that region and era. It seems like there's sort of a false historical tale of that era, that probably is a "father" to the tale told about vietnam and the "undefeatable" communist peasantry :rolleyes: As well as the yarns about senator mccarthy and his supposed nuttyness and mean spiritedness.