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Why was the "loss" of China to communism seen as a crushing defeat?

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The loss of china is in the U.S political discourse the unexpected Chinese communist party takeover of mainland china from the American-backed kuomintang (the Nationalists) in 1949 and therefore the loss of china to communism.

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