Intelligence
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2011

The basic arrangement at Yalta was that US and Soviet negotiators worked out the terms of future Chinese-Soviet relations and then presented them to Chongqing. But we know from Chiang’s instructions to Fu back in October 1943, that Chiang was willing much earlier to negotiate an alliance with the Soviet Union in order to get Soviet support. Indeed, Fu had received a letter in August, indicating Chiang’s willingness to negotiate. This was a personal directive:1