The U.S.-China Relationship After World War Two

After World War two, the U.S. abandoned its ally China and stood back as Mao took over in 1949. The world had almost no access to China for decades before Rockefeller wrote his op-ed about it. But there's an argument to be made for the positive statistics during Mao's rule,. Infant mortality rates dropped from 227 per thousand to 1949 to 53 per thousand.