Can the West Hold Together? Lessons from WWII with Tim Bouverie and Michael Gove (Part Two)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our recent live event with historian Tim Bouvery and Michael Gove. In September, Bouvery and Gove came to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss the state of the West today and the lessons we can take from World War II. They discussed Bouvery's new book, Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler, exploring how Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin all overcame ideological differences and strategic rivalries to form a fragile but ultimately victorious alliance against Nazi Germany.
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You mentioned American support for China. And of course, America was supporting Chiang Kai-shek, the nationalist Chinese leader at the time, and Roosevelt was very attached to him and to his cause. Why did he, why did China loom so large in American thinking? China was seen by America as a fellow anti-colonial power.
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