From Chiang Kai-Shek, An Unauthorized Biography:

“In The Stilwell Papers we see not only the portrait of the Generalissimo as Stilwell saw him — pigheaded, ignorant, dishonest, preoccupied with piddling little questions of ‘face,’ caring only for power, wildly disorganized in his military strategy, and, most damning of all, hopelessly out of step with Western methods. We also see the American, at once keyed up by his responsibility and weighed down by it; full of nervous energy that went sour when it was frustrated; incapable — surely to an abnormal degree? — of appreciating that there are more points of view than one’s own, and that the world is a good deal larger than America. Putting it simply, Chinese are not Americans. Stilwell must have known this in theory, but when he ran up against the fact it always surprised and dismayed him, and set him on the boil.”