Very interesting. I made the acquaintance of a prosperous heritage Chinese in Australia.
He had done some work in China.
He said they were completely untrustworthy.
My dealings with Chinese in the USA, they have been honorable in the small things, anyway.
In Communist China, you have to be considered loyal to the Communist Party, to get ahead.
I never knew anything about the Chinese until I read the biography of General Stillwell, ‘Vinegar Joe’
Along with everything else, he was a Chinese ‘scholar’ knew the culture and spoke many of the dialects.
I remember reading about his astonishment at Chang Kai Chek and Madam Chang ‘Cash My Check’ as she was called.
A more unscrupulous duo you have never heard of. When General Stillwell needed 4000 soldiers, Chang agreed to send them. He emptied the jails, hospitals etc., and sent Joe the worst possible ‘soldiers’ you could think of.
Chang sent 4000, alright… men without weapons, training, experience, in poor health, near dead and starving. When Vinegar Joe challenged that, Chang said ‘We have a saying in China...”Would you use your best steel to make nails?”
To Chang-soldiering was not an honorable profession and he wasn’t going to help the US defeat Japan. Chang stockpiled all the US materiel FDR gave him. He was hoarding it for his inevitable scrap with Mao, once WE drove the Japanese out of China FOR HIM.
That was typical of ALL the US dealing with Chang from beginning