Well, I always tell people that CCP loved US more than USSR, but were rejected by US on ideology reasons. Then everyone just plainly cannot wrap their mind around the fact that working with CCP would more likely to create a less socialism country...
Service's records (the Dixie report) are pretty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Mission clear that CCP aspires to work with US, and Mao was a US fan.