 In chapters five and six Townsend discusses US @-@ funded charitable organizations in China , especially missions . He points out that although the United States had given at least $ 160 million in philanthropy to China , these charities in China , even secular hospitals and schools , are generally preyed upon by the very Chinese people who the charitable workers seek to help . These charities are subject to rampant looting , arson , and murderous mob violence by Chinese people who their government refuses to prosecute . Much of this violence is incited by the anti @-@ foreigner propaganda of the KMT , a party described as being " worse than the Ku Klux Klan at its most degenerate stage " , and through US aid to China Townsend suggests that America is actually bankrolling propaganda against itself . Though the missionaries are sincere and hard @-@ working , Townsend finds that they suffer from extreme delusion over the ultimate futility of their goal of reforming the Chinese . The missionaries , he states , have willfully ignored overwhelming evidence that no degree of care or education can uproot the intrinsic sickness of Chinese culture . He calls for an end to all missionary and charitable work in China . 
