1949年国民党政权溃败,在半壁江山的危局中,一部分国民党人和上层“自由主义知识分子”——胡适、雷震、王世杰、杭立武等人总结教训,认为败于中共的一个主要原因是宣传思想斗争的失败,要继续反共,就得建设所谓宣传“民主自由”的言论机关,于是倡议创办了《自由中国》杂志。当时,美国发表了《对华关 In 1949, the Kuomintang regime was defeated. In half the crisis, some Kuomintang leaders and top “liberal intellectuals” - Hu Shih, Lei Zhen, Wang Shijie and Hang Liwu, summed up the lesson that one of the main reasons for losing the CCP was propaganda and thinking In order to continue anti-communist defeat, we must establish what we call propaganda and “democracy and freedom” and therefore advocate the establishment of “Free China.” At that time, the United States issued a speech to “China.”