With the unfolding of military confrontation between China and the United States on the Korean peninsula, America’s hostility toward China escalated into a full-scale containment. On January 13, 1951, U.S. President Harry Truman sent a personal message to General Douglas MacArthur, bringing him up to date on America’s basic national and international purposes in continuing the war in Korea. Truman mentioned ten points, two pertaining to China: “(a) To deflate the dangerously exaggerated political and military prestige of Communist China which now threatens to undermine the resistance of non-Communist Asia and to consolidate the hold of communism on China itself. (b) To inspire those who may be called upon to fight against great odds if subjected to a sudden onslaught by the Soviet Union or by Communist China.”