In 1949, the Nationalist party of China, the Kuomintang (KMT), fled from mainland China after a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party. The KMT's failure was due to poor management and widespread corruption within the party.
In 1912, the last Chinese Emperor abdicated, with many parts of China resisting Imperial rule. With this abdication, China disintegrated into various smaller provinces, each one rules by a different warlord. Around this time, two political parties formed. One was a Nationalist Party, the KMT, founded by Sun Yat-sen. The other was a Communist party, the CCP. From 1925, to 1927, the CCP and the KMT were united in efforts to unify China, and defeat the warlords. However in 1927 Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT leader, decided that the Communists were a threat to National unity. He ordered members of the Kuomintang to turn their guns on the Communists. 5 600 Communists were killed in the massacre, though many fled into neighboring mountains.
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English: Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center Library (...In 1928, the KMT was far more powerful than the CCP. The CCP was constantly besieged by Nationalist forces. In 1934, the CCP's army fled from its Southern stronghold to its Northern province. They were relentlessly harried by KMT forces, and it took a year to march the long distance. The Long March gave the CCP the opportunity to spread the ideals of Communism to ordinary Chinese people. This made the people believe that Communism would be better for them than any of the ideals of the KMT. Even while Japan sat on China's northern borders, an army poised to invade, Chiang sent his forces to assail the CCP in the south. Chiang was determined to destroy the Communists.
In 1937, Japan invaded China and once again the CCP and the KMT were united. During the years of war with...
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You make some good points as to why the Communists gained control of China in 1949. While I would not defend any corruption which may have existed in the regime of Chiang Kai-shek, I find communism an unacceptable form of government which has a history of generally repressing the citizenry as badly as, or worse than, that of even the most corrupt regime If given a choice between corruption and communism, I would choose neither.
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