1. Up from Isolationism
Year: 2015

Abstract This chapter examines the motivation and method behind conservatives' adoption of China as a signature foreign policy issue from the Chinese Revolution through the Korean War. During that transition period, leaders of the "old" right began to see the rapidly disintegrating situation in East Asia as a political opportunity and looked to past events like Yalta to clarify their positions on foreign policy. Both exemplified and led by Sen. Robert A. Taft, they were awakened to the possibili