China Uncensored..... these are funny.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8hnk0mxaAU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAXTAv8eqzM

[_Gunnar]

Yes, I have little doubt that the Japanese invasion of China was eagerly taken advantage of by the Chinese Communists to further their own self interests and power at the expense of the Nationalist Chinese. I agree that it is likely that that the nationalist Chinese under Chiang Kai-shek might have had a better chance of establishing a lasting, democratic China had it not been for the Japanese invasion before and during WWII. Nevertheless, Chiang himself bears some responsibility for the eventual Communist take over of China because of his over authoritarian style of government and kowtowing to wealthy and selfish Chinese landowners and business interests. He was not the great advocate of democracy that Sun Yat-sen was.

Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun embraced in favour of an authoritarian government.

Chiang's predecessor, Sun Yat-sen, was well-liked and respected by the Communists, but after Sun's death Chiang was not able to maintain good relations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). A major split between the Nationalists and Communists occurred in 1927; and, under Chiang's leadership, the Nationalists fought a nationwide civil war against the Communists. After Japan invaded China in 1937, Chiang agreed to a temporary truce with the CCP. Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CCP nor the KMT trusted or was actively cooperating with the other.

After the Marshall Mission, an American-sponsored attempt to negotiate a coalition government, failed in 1946, the Chinese Civil War resumed. The CCP defeated the Nationalists in 1949. Westad says the Communists won the Civil War because they made fewer military mistakes than Chiang Kai-Shek, and because in his search for a powerful centralized government, Chiang antagonized too many interest groups in China. Furthermore, his party was weakened in the war against Japan. Meanwhile, the Communists told different groups, such as peasants, exactly what they wanted to hear, and cloaked themselves in the cover of Chinese Nationalism.