Soviet diplomat Peter Vladimirov said that the Communist never fought the Japanese. some people will say that it was Russian lies. General Wedemyer said that the Communist never made much of an active resistance against the Japanese. the same people will say that it was American lies. Yasuji Okamura said that Japan killed few Communist troops. it was Japanese lies. Chungking said that the Communist never fought the Japanese but attacked National Government troops. as usual, it was Kuomintang lies. Zhang Guotao and Wang Ming said that CCP wayang the war all the way. as expected. it was the CCP traitors lies.
everyone somewhat ganged up to slander the heroic war efforts of the Communist Party of China. only the words of leader Mao Zedong were the absolute truth.
Please check my posts. Right from the start, I stated that the KMT fought the Japanese more. And did I say the CCP fought the Japanese heroically?
One reason most of the fighting was by the KMT was because the Japanese were attacking the important territories which were all controlled by the KMT.
"Resistance to the Japanese fell primarily on the Kuomintang because the Communists were in the remote areas of northwestern China. Also neither Chiang or Mao wanted to weaken their forced by fighting pitched battles with the Japanese. The major engagements were largely between the Japanese and the Nationalists. This was largely because the Nationalists (KMT) conrolled the most valuable areas of China that the Japanese coveted."
http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/camp/pac/china/w2c-cr.html
So everything Chiang and his "allies" said were the absolute truth?
Note that Stalin hated Mao. And after the war, the Japanese were very grateful to Chiang because his generosity to the returning Japanese troops - to the extent of giving each Japanese soldier a sack of rice.
In the Xi'an incident of 1936, Chiang was forced at gun point to unite with the CCP to fight the Japanese. The whole world and the more importantly the Chinese people knew about this. Do you think the CCP could avoid fighting the Japanese totally?
Soviet Russian ordered CCP to carry out the sabotage operations. Chiang Kai Shek stance was clear from the onset: "we might appease the Japanese now but it is temporary. we must buy time to get ready for the war. we will only fight when we are ready. when that day comes. we will fight the Japanese to the very end until eventual victory, and we will restore Chinese pride and take back all our stolen lands from the Japanese." but unfortunately, there were some groups and people in China ( not only the Communist ) who wanted China to get into a war with Japan asap for its own sinister interests.
Haha, and you believe what Chiang said? Anybody in his shoes would say the same thing. He was under pressure from all sides to fight the Japanese: from the Chinese people and from his own generals (yes, some probably for selfish reasons because they were warlords and lost their territories to the Japanese). Yes, it was possible that Chiang really meant what he said. But would anybody be confident that he could get back all the territories taken by the Japanese after beating the CCP?
Chiang said that obviously to appease the people. But it was probably too late. If the Xi'an incident was indeed masterminded by the CCP, then it was a master stroke because in a single stroke, it painted the picture that the CCP was the one who wanted to unite to fight the Japs, and that Chiang had to be coerced to do it. The CCP knew how to 得民心 (of course we all know this is all politics).
Chiang wanted to wait until China was stronger. But you yourself said the Japanese wanted to attack before China could become stronger.
the Soviet’s archives were opened for research since the early 90s. some historian authors like Jung Chang and Jay Taylor had dug into the archives to get proof of the Soviet-CCP collusion in China during that period.
Do you mean to say Japanese-CCP collusion or Soviet-CCP collusion? Of course there was Soviet-CCP collusion. They were both communists, you know. Even if Stalin didn't like Mao.
person A instigated person B to kill person C. person B was the murderer. person A was the instigator. both A and B were guilty of the murder crime. that is my point. the Japanese were the war aggressor that committed a war crime against the Chinese people. were the CCP ( war provoker ) committing a war crime against the Chinese people too ?
That's a joke. You are contradicting yourself here again. You said earlier that the Japanese had by 1936 concluded that it was now or never to attack China. You also agree that the anti-China faction had been the dominant faction in Japan, and they had been making plans to attack China for a long time.
So if person B had already planned for a long time to kill person C, how could you accuse of anybody else of instigating the killing.
Sure you can say the CCP made it easier for the Japanese to attack China. This is absolutely true because disunity is weakness. Japanese was able to attack China because the Chinese were fighting amongst themselves. Why don't you put the blame on KMT for not making peace with the CCP earlier?
You also said "the CCP was indirectly responsible for 9/18". "Indirectly Responsible" and "Instigate" are strong words.
To say that the CCP was indirectly responsible for the war because its sabotaging of Japanese operations weakened the already weak pro-China faction in Japan is twisted logic. You have to prove that the CCP was deliberately provoking a full scale Japanese war before you can assign any blame to it. Even in the 7/7 incident, you thought that the CCP only wanted to provoke a "local" war - although your contention was CCP planned to get the Japanese to start a full war.
Going by your logic,
we could say Chiang Kai Shek was indirectly responsible for the war because he broke up the KMT-CCP alliance in 1927, causing the civil war, weakening China and therefore making it easy for Japan to attack.
Or we can say that US President Roosevelt was indirectly responsible for the war because if he had supported KMT more, the KMT would have defeated the CCP long before 1937.
Or US President Woodrow Wilson was indirectly responsible because he didn't object to the unfair Treaty of Versailles in 1919 who gave Shangdong to Japan instead of returning to China. It was in the May Fourth Movement that many Chinese intellectuals who felt betrayed by the USA turned away from Western style liberal democracy to Communism. So US President Woodrow Wilson was indirectly responsible for the 2nd Sino-Japan war because he was indirectly responsible for the birth of Communism in China which led to the CCP which led to the CCP-KMT war which weakened China and made it easy for Japan to attack China.
Last but not least, we could say God was indirectly responsible for the war because .... I will leave this to you since you are so good at this kind of thing.