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/cam...na/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?
your point was the KMT fought the Japanese more. my point was the CCP evaded the Japanese for close to 8 years and rarely fought a decent war. apparently. the CCP attacked Nationalist troops and colluded with the Japanese on occasions. that was our differences. note* even Edgar Snow, one of the biggest CCP cocksucker wrote in his book that CCP did limited fighting during the war. the CCP only fought one decent war in 8 years, that was Battle of Pingxingguan in 1937.
it was China’s blessing that the KMT and most of its aligned Warlords were selfless patriots during the war unlike the selfish CCP.
regarding the CCP wayang war. the five sides ( KMT, former CCP, US, Russian, Japan ) versions actually can corroborate each other stories. but you believe that CCP one sided version was closer to the truth ?
there were stories of the CCP wayang war from the ordinary people. Dr Lin Yutang and Father Raymond J.De.Jaegher obtained first and second hand accounts of CCP atrocities from the Chinese people who had seen and experienced it for themselves. J.De.Jaegher was an eye-witness to the CCP atrocities.
“The enemy within” from J.De.Jaegher
“Vigil of a Nation” from Lin Yutang
Dr Lin Yutang was a CCP sympathizer during the early days of the war.
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.
Chiang didn’t wayang when he talked about the extensive preparation work needed for the war of attrition. he did it from 1931 to 1937. i could list out many things that he did. today. the ROC and PRC historians jointly agreed that Chiang’s war of attrition strategy was correct. China would be slaughtered by the Japanese if full war happened in 1931, not 1937.
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.
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.
there was nothing that contained contradiction. the Japanese made plans for the future invasion of China. whether there would be an invasion of China or not ? it depended on circumstances.
even if person B wanted to kill person C all along. person A still instigate B to kill C. are you suggesting that in a court of law, even if A was proven to has instigated B to kill C. A will not be found guilty because B had shown intentions to kill C all along ?
i shall write a bit about 7/7 story later. i have mentioned earlier. there were no solid evidences, only circumstantial and corroborating evidences of a CCP conspiracy in 7/7.
it was understandable why the KMT and CCP didn’t make peace. can't force these two sides with totally different ideologies to amalgamate together whatever. but during the Sino-Japanese war. both sides should cooperate to fight against the Japanese invaders. the KMT-CCP wartime cooperation was for appearance sake only. it was fine too if both sides can fight their own battles against the Japanese. but the problem was both sides actually fought irregular skirmishes with each other throughout the war. the CCP started the skirmishes 95% of the time.
the Wannan incident was the last straw that ended any real KMT-CCP united front. the KMT and CCP had their own versions of the story. both sides claimed the other side was at fault first.
according to the villagers eyewitness: the CCP troops kept firing at the KMT troops for a long time. the KMT kept enduring it until they can't bear it any longer and returned fire. ( 谁是新中国 by 辛灏年)
the consequences of the Central Plains War would be 9/18. the CCP moles within the Nationalist coalition provoked the Central Plains War. so the CCP were indirectly responsible for 9/18. this is totally logical.
your analogy or logic were way off the mark.
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