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by _tik_
954 days ago
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I am unsure which era of Chiang Kai Shek you are referring to. Multiple warlords ruled CKS-era China. CKS did not have any power in North China. CKS capital was Nanjing. The CKS era was full of war with communists and other warlords. CKS had the full support of the US. |
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Ah but he did not have the “full” support for the last 20 years of his reign due to his insistence on using foreign aid to bolster his holding in Nanjing instead of pushing out the Japanese from the mainland to the north and in Burma. He was more concerned with losing power to the communists than losing his country to Japan. While his role was viewed as “democratic” in the eyes of the US media his role was nothing short of a one-party dictatorship that suffered from the same inability of subordinates being able to notify the powers that be of anything even resembling bad news.