If anything the West exported communism to Asia (Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot were both educated and converted to communism in France.... not sure about Mao and Kim Il Sung... I know Mao had an American advisor named Sidney Rittenberg) and The West is currently complicit in propping up the CCP by allowing our manufacturing to be gutted and outsourced to China. Henry Kissinger started the process under Nixon.
If anything the West exported communism to Asia (Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot were both educated and converted to communism in France.... not sure about Mao and Kim Il Sung... I know Mao had an American advisor named Sidney Rittenberg) and The West is currently complicit in propping up the CCP by allowing our manufacturing to be gutted and outsourced to China. Henry Kissinger started the process under Nixon.
Mao was influenced by Chinese scholars at Peking University who had become enthralled with Russian Leninists.