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    Republic in 1949, the United States government had continuously treated the PRC as an ideological enemy and a satellite state or ally of the Soviet Union. After the two nations clashed in the Korean War in the early 1950s and especially after Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin and adopted a more moderate and conciliatory policy of co-existence vis-à-vis the US, American leaders from Truman to Johnson regarded the PRC as a more dangerous and willful adversary than the USSR. However, soaring casualties