MacArthur and Mao's War in the Northeast

Mao's son Mao An-Ying, known as Volunteer No. 1, was killed in a U.S. airstrike on November 23rd, 1980. Joe Enlai held the news from Mao for several months. After two years of excruciating negotiations, three years, two months and two days after it all started, they did hammer out an armistice. Four months earlier, Stalin had died. Joe and Lai represented China's official delegation to the funeral. While he was in Moscow, Joe used the time to bring up the matter of the Soviets sharing the secrets to make the atomic bomb. The war was a propaganda minister's dream come true.