The action that United Nation forces should have done differently to avoid China entering the war is listening to warnings and halting their advance.
When about 180,000 Chinese troops shattered the right flank of Walker's Eighth Army in the west and threatened to destroy the X Corps near the Chosin Reservoir.
This made MacArthur informed the Joint Chiefs that "We face an entirely new war".
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