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Telling Americans About China (and Intelligence) – with Sara Castro


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Summary

Dr. Sara Castro (LinkedIn, Bio) joins Andrew (XLinkedIn) to discuss the history of US-China diplomacy. Sara is an Associate Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy. 


What You’ll LearnIntelligence
  • The Dixie Mission 
  • The history of US-China relations dating back to the Opium Wars
  • China’s involvement with the OSS during WWII
  • How Mao Zedong & Chiang Kai-shek built modern China
  • Reflections
    • Understanding and empathy
    • Knowledge is power 
    • And much, much more …
      Resources SURFACE SKIM*Spotlight Resource*
      Mission to Mao: US Intelligence in China during World War II, Sara B. Castro, (Georgetown University Press, 2024) *SpyCasts*
      • Making Sense of China, Taiwan, & America Pacific Intelligence with Bonny Lin (2023)
      • China’s Corporate Spy War with CNBC’s Eamon Javers (2023)
      • Trafficking Data: The Digital Struggle with China with Aynne Kokas (2022)
        *Beginner Resources*
        • Beyond the Balloon: The Complicated History Behind US-China Relations, Voice of America, YouTube (2023) [8 min. video]
        • China’s Overlooked Role in World War II, C. Klein, The History Channel (2022) [Short article]
        • Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The Short Happy Life of the OSS, The National World War II Museum (2020) [Short article]
          DEEPER DIVEBooks
          • Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World, A. Joske (Hardie Grant, 2022) 
          • The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, M. Pillsbury (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016) 
          • Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945, R. Mitter (Mariner Books, 2013)
            Primary Sources 
            • Dixie Mission Remembered in Beijing (2004)
            • U.S.-PRC Political Negotiations, 1967-1984 (1985)
            • CIA Intelligence Report: Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” (1967)
            • War Report: Office of Strategic Services: Operations in the Field (1949) 
            • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Address to the U.S. House of Representatives (1943)
            • Treaty Of Tianjin (1858)
            • Treaty Of Wangxia (1844) 
              *Wildcard Resource*
              • After the signing of the SACO Treaty in 1942, Chinese spymaster Dai Li took command of the US-China intelligence cooperation during World War II. 
              • Six decades later in 2005, Nickelodeon premiered the now immensely popular American anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender. In the series, the elite secret police agency of fictional capital city Ba Sing Se are appropriately named, The Dai Li
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